ok i'll bite,
what is epistemics
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It's an artificial contraption dismantled by a very annoying brilliant man named Wittgenstein that people are still frantically trying to reassemble for some reason
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he wrote one beautiful book called the tractatus that was basically, 'all there is are atomic, discreet states of reality, if you're talking about that you're not confused, everything that is not that is mystical and cannot be discussed, so shut the fuck up basically'
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and then he realized he wasn't quite right, and followed it up with other work that basically said 'the existence of concepts is not different from the context of their use; when we delineate, we are naming the difference in things that we can then refer to'
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so a question like 'how do you know things,' the basic question of epistemology, is silly; 'know' is a disjunctive concept, different if you're playing the piano, or knowing trivia, or knowing where to go, the criteria of the concept are determined dynamically
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if you're talking about 'what is knowledge,' you're creating a concept, knowledge, and then talking about how you know it, so you're making a cloud of words and relating it to another cloud of words
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to be anything like a real thing, the study of knowledge must pertain to the actual position of the knower, what it is, in action, for you to understand things, and even what 'understand,' as a gesture, funnels you into, what it filters
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i think you've probably ascertained a lot of this, W sort of worked his way back around to something like intelligent common sense after hundreds of years of crazy intellectual masturbation
but it's fun to explore the consequences of this, as, for example, has
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right. most of the point of good thinking in this area is to undo the effects of bad thinking. if the bad thinking isn’t inside you then no worries
hmm if you have to ask maybe better not to give any examples so your precious virgin head can remain unsullied 😅
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