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Why do philosophers think they know everything?
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November 29, 2005

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Marc Lange
November 29, 2005 (changed November 29, 2005) Permalink

I don't know.

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Richard Heck
November 29, 2005 (changed November 29, 2005) Permalink

Socrates famously said (roughly) that philosophy begins with knowledge of one's own ignorance. And I think any careful reading of this site would find most of us being extremely careful to add all kinds of qualifications and expressions of uncertainty to much of what we have to say. Of course, in some cases, we might claim to know something, but that falls rather a long way short of claiming to know everything.

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