What’s the mental/emotional equivalent of bodybuilding?
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The appearance of possessing knowledge and authority without it necessarily being functional.
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This is deeper than I was expecting. Lots of questions bubbling up about the nature of knowledge, the goals of academia and what it means for knowledge to be functional.
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We can often test our epistemology on the world, i.e. “do I know where the grocery store is” to see if it’s functional, but the more abstract our knowledge gets i.e. “do I know how to end poverty”, the more difficult it is to ascertain functionality because I can’t test it.
Is all knowledge capable of being tested, or is it just a certain type of knowledge?
Are there forms of knowledge for which such testing would be irrelevant?
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Certainly most knowledge nowadays cannot be adequately tested. I think that philosophy in many ways explores the untestable. I’m getting out of my depths here, but there are many things we know ‘a priori’, like colors and sensations and duration, or ‘I know I love you’, etc.