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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 02 April 2014 09:49:31PM 1 point [-]

Dogs know how to swim, but it’s unlikely they know any truths describing their activities.

-- Richard Fumerton, Epistemology

Comment author: RichardKennaway 06 April 2014 07:19:17PM 5 points [-]

Dogs know how to swim, but it’s unlikely they know any truths describing their activities.

How would one tell?

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 07 April 2014 09:41:05PM 6 points [-]

How would one tell?

First, you offer them a sequence of bets such that...oh wait.

Comment author: MugaSofer 08 April 2014 08:50:29AM 4 points [-]

Really? So, say, if I put a bone on the other side of the river, the dog doesn't know that it can swim across?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 April 2014 01:18:00AM 1 point [-]

"Go work in AI for a while, then come back and write a book on epistemology," he thought.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 April 2014 02:06:06AM 3 points [-]

Upon reading this, he wanted to map out the argumentative space in his head and decided to try to draw a line at one end, saying "Lets not get nuts. Mercury thermometers can react differentially to temperature, but they don't know how hot it is."

Comment author: Nominull 28 April 2014 06:31:11PM 2 points [-]

[citation needed]

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 04 April 2014 11:31:30PM -2 points [-]

Do dogs not know that bones are nice?

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