As long as we can still make medicine cure, computers compute, planes fly etc.
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That's mathematics/science, the knowledge we are concerned with is social/linguistic. Many problems in this area.
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Talking about knowledge. Social stuff is mostly not knowledge.
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Humanities aspires to knowledge. Your essay is part of the humanities isn't it?
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Well, now we're back in knowledge. I write about things people said & did due to records we have.
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It seems to me that those things make this knowledge historically situated. This is a basic or obvious statement but important.
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People knew different things in different times. Right & wrong answers still exist & knowledge builds.
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To an extent but this is a complex area. Right and wrong are clearly very difficult. This area is one of those where you can't easily just..
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Right & wrong aren't knowledge. You need an ethical premise & to argue for it.
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