Things+to+Think+About

=Things to Think About=

From //The Dream Weaver One Boy's Journey through the Landscape of Reality// by Jack Bowen Ian, the young protagonist, is visited by a wizened old man who challenges Ian's claim that he knows something about the world around him. The old man leaves Ian with the idea that "the only thing you know is that you know nothing." The next morning Ian asks his parents, both of whom are scientists...and his mother responds, "It's a paradox. Completely impossible, logically. if you do know that you know nothing, then you know that....ANd, either you do know nothing or you don't. If you do know nothing, and you know it, then you know someting. If you don't know nothing, then, by simple logic, you know something: that you know nothing, which is inherently paradoxical. His mother argued, " I argue that knowledge is achieved if the following three criteria are met. you can see if everything that you think you know fits this. "First, you must be justified in believeing somehting. Right? If you ask what year Abe Lincoln died, imagine that I answer, 'The number on my soccer jersey was eighteen and my favorite numbers are six and five, so he died in 1865.' I'm hardly justified in knowing what year he died, despite the fact that I was right. I have no good reason for holding that belief. "Secondly, what you claim to know must be true. this should seem obvious. You can't know someting if it's not true. How we determine something to be true is another story, but we all agree that to know it, it must be true. "And thirdlyl, you must believe what you know. You can't know it's Jeff's birthday tomorrow ifyou believe that it's n ext week. "So that should help for now. In order for you to know someting, you must have a justified true belief."

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