One never knows, does one?

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

Poll question: One never knows, does one?

Please give reasons for your answer.



On edit: New pic. Last one was too distracting.

[Blue-Jay]

1. I think, therefore

I'll sit around starkers.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

3. You think it's his birthday

or is he a nudist? Alas, some questions are not meant to be answered.

[Clintmax]

2. Hot picture! Don't understand the question though...

Am I missing something?

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

4. Look inward for your answer.

Some questions one must answer for one's self.

[kick-ass-bob]

5. one never knows, but all always know.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

6. Well put...

Completely inane but eloquently expressed nonetheless.

[kick-ass-bob]

7. And the expression makes the statement!

Who cares if it means something...

:shrug:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

8. Certainly not I.

...And we trudge ever closer to the true meaning of this thread.

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Terrence Humbodys-Hedoff knows.

[progmom]

10. too distracting?

:rofl:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

12. Yes, naked men provoke many things....

but not deep, critical thinking.

Now hot girl on girl action....hell, that gets the wheels turnin'!

[Debi]

11. Oh, I know

:7

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

13. Do enlighten us...

oh, wise one. :sarcasm:

[Debi]

22. Then I wouldn't be the only one, now would I?

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

23. If you will not agree to disclose what you know,

then I have no alternative but to tase you.



By the way, Debi, that flannel shirt really brings out your eyes.

[Debi]

30. flattery will get you nowhere....

now, up the voltage -

[AntiCoup2K4]

14. Tomorrow Never Knows

Turn off your mind, relax
and float down stream
It is not dying.....

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

15. That's easily the best Ringo song. (nt)

[bicentennial_baby]

16. I thought I knew, but I didn't...

and damn, am i glad that i was wrong! :bounce:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

17. Indeed, all knowledge is wrong.

You were right to question your convictions and to submit to what you know to be true....nothing! :straightenstie:

[bicentennial_baby]

18. hahaha

you're not only gorgeous, you're funny too! :loveya:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

20. How sweet of you to say so....

but flattery will not affect your grade. There are means of persuasion however. Please see me during office hours.

[alarcojon]

19. As the great philosopher Rummy has said:

as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

21. I am not familiar with works of the so-called "great philosopher Rummy,"

but from the quote above, I surmise he is a complete dullard....and is therefore fit to occupy a position of great power.

[redqueen]

24. I sure don't.

:wtf:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

25. Oh sweet Jesus...

:puke:

Sadly, you will receive failing marks for your lack of insight. See me during office hours if you'd like to "discuss" your grade.

[redqueen]

26. Lack of insight my ass!

That picture illustrates your query PERFECTLY!

I'll take the F, on principle. :)

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

28. Hmmmmm....

Perhaps I underestimated you.....






Nope, I was right. Fail. :clearsthroatinsuperciliousmanner:

[Wapsie B]

27. oh good god.

Now I'm gonna have to find another pic to get that one outta my head.

:rofl:

[Wapsie B]

29. Other.

Some people know they know.
Others know they don't know.
Others don't know they don't know.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

31. A brilliant line of quasi-thoughtful reasoning

You have won my approval. :condescendinglypatsstudentonhead:

[swag]

32. That reminds me

from On Certainty

2. From its seeming to me - or to everyone - to be so, it doesn't follow that it is so.
What we can ask is whether it can make sense to doubt it.

3. If e.g. someone says "I don't know if there's a hand here" he might be told "Look closer". - This possibility of satisfying oneself is part of the language-game. Is one of its essential features.

4. "I know that I am a human being." In order to see how unclear the sense of this proposition is, consider its negation. At most it might be taken to mean "I know I have the organs of a human". (E.g. a brain which, after all, no one has ever yet seen.) But what about such a proposition as "I know I have a brain"? Can I doubt it? Grounds for doubt are lacking! Everything speaks in its favour, nothing against it. Nevertheless it is imaginable that my skull should turn out empty when it was operated on.

5. Whether a proposition can turn out false after all depends on what I make count as determinants for that proposition.

6. Now, can one enumerate what one knows (like Moore)? Straight off like that, I believe not. - For otherwise the expression "I know" gets misused. And through this misuse a queer and extremely important mental state seems to be revealed.

7. My life shows that I know or am certain that there is a chair over there, or a door, and so on. - I tell a friend e.g. "Take that chair over there", "Shut the door", etc. etc.

8. The difference between the concept of 'knowing' and the concept of 'being certain' isn't of any great importance at all, except where "I know" is meant to mean: I can't be wrong. In a law-court, for example, "I am certain" could replace "I know" in every piece of testimony. We might even imagine its being forbidden to say "I know" there.

9. Now do I, in the course of my life, make sure I know that here is a hand - my own hand, that is?

10. I know that a sick man is lying here? Nonsense! I am sitting at his bedside, I am looking attentively into his face. - So I don't know, then, that there is a sick man lying here? Neither the question nor the assertion makes sense. Any more than the assertion "I am here", which I might yet use at any moment, if suitable occasion presented itself. - Then is "2x2=4" nonsense in the same way, and not a proposition of arithmetic, apart from particular occasions? "2x2=4" is a true proposition of arithmetic - not "on particular occasions" nor "always" - but the spoken or written sentence "2x2=4" in Chinese might have a different meaning or be out and out nonsense, and from this is seen that it is only in use that the proposition has its sense. And "I know that there's a sick man lying here", used in an unsuitable situation, seems not to be nonsense but rather seems matter-of-course, only because one can fairly easily imagine a situation to fit it, and one thinks that the words "I know that..." are always in place where there is no doubt, and hence even where the expression of doubt would unintelligible.

11. We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

12. - For "I know" seems to describe a state of affairs which guarantees what is known, guarantees it as a fact. One always forgets the expression "I thought I knew".

. . . much more

http://budni.by.ru/oncertainty.html

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

33. You extra credit work will serve you well, swag.

C+

[enigmatic]

34. I know one thing

I got the CD in the mail today, and will be adding more somngs to the overnight show:)

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

35. Dude, you da' man!!!

A+ for you, laddy!