Mothers’ or Mother’s Day I ask?
Depends if it’s one or many of them. One needs to know which.
It was yesterday in some parts of the world. Others have it on the second Sunday in May.
I realise that some of the "ancient texts" we have are not quite what they are alleged to be but in order to begin somewhere I pick Plato, OK?
What do I know? Practically nothing: Which is why Socrates was accounted the wisest man in Athens. he was completely convinced that he knew nothing.
Socrates - Wikipedia
I know that I know nothing - Wikipedia
Socrates is known for disavowing knowledge, a claim encapsulated in the saying "
I know that I know nothing". This is often attributed to Socrates on the basis of a statement in Plato's
Apology, though the same view is repeatedly found elsewhere in Plato's early writings on Socrates.
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Why?
This saying is also connected or conflated with the
answer to a question Socrates (according to
Xenophon) or
Chaerephon (according to Plato) is said to have posed to the
Pythia, the
Oracle of Delphi, in which the oracle stated something to the effect of "Socrates is the wisest person in
Athens."
[3] Socrates, believing the oracle but
also completely convinced that he knew nothing, was said to have concluded that
nobody knew anything, and that he was only wiser than others because he was the only person who recognised his own ignorance.
"
I know that I know nothing" is a saying derived from
Plato's account of the
Greek philosopher Socrates:
"For I was conscious that I knew practically nothing..."
(Plato, Apology 22d, translated by Harold North Fowler, 1966).
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Coming beck to here and now, and to me and my particular point.
How do I know what I know? Do I know what I know? What evidence do I have to offer? This is a question for everyone really; I’m only clarifying to get to the basic point, like boiling stock down before making a hearty stew, haha.
What is evidence and what is proof? Do we even know there's any difference? There really really is I assure you.
Evidence forms the basis for building a case or argument, while
proof is the culmination of that
evidence, establishing a higher level of certainty or truth.
Evidence is necessary to gather support and convince others, while
proof is required to establish any conclusive outcome.
Even that is partial but it’s a start, like putting the bits assembled into a large saucepan with water, the great solvent. It’s so good at dissolving because it’s amphoteric.
It’s not universal but it’s the best so I believe, from experience as well as accessing printed wisdom.
Context is the cue for most meaning we CAN ever find in anything. I put that forward for your consideration. Without context we find ourselves in trackless wastes … wandering on or round, who knows which? Who can tell and how except from outside the paradigm? And who’s in that position?
Evidence and proof: Keep coming back to the distinction. Which is moving the sun or the earth? How can I tell? What’s my evidence, where’s my proof? What’s my own experience?
The Foucault Pendulum. That’s the proof- or is it just evidence for a story, no more than that?
The
Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist
Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the
Earth's rotation. If a long and heavy pendulum suspended from the high roof above a circular area is monitored over an extended period of time, its
plane of
oscillation appears to change spontaneously as the Earth makes its 24-hourly rotation.
The pendulum was introduced in 1851 and was the first experiment to give simple, direct evidence of the Earth's rotation.
I post this thread here but it's very much part of our alternative history ;maybe an admin person will advise mef urther & move if appropriate.
I was stimulated into this by Feralimal and his recent post regarding the chemical elements, such as oxygen hydrogen et al
Many thanks all