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2 Post author: G0W51 31 January 2015 02:00AM

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Comment author: Unknowns 01 February 2015 06:23:52PM 1 point [-]

Obviously, if you say you are absolutely certain that everything we think is either false or unknown, including your own certainty of this, no one will ever be able to "prove" anything to you, since you just said you would not admit any premise that might be used in such a proof.

But in the first place, such a certainty is not useful for living, and you do not use it, but rather assume that many things are true, and in the second place, this is not really relevant to Less Wrong, since someone with this certainty already supposes that he knows that he can never be less wrong, and therefore will not try.

Comment author: G0W51 03 February 2015 01:47:49AM 0 points [-]

I never said I was absolutely certain everything we think is either false or unknown. I'm saying that I have no way of knowing if it is false or unknown -- I am absolutely uncertain.