Have you heard about the dunning Kruger effect ?

[Paidithalli]

[jajjanaka_jandri]

12 minutes ago, Paidithalli said:

 

 

but there is always a guy who is ahead of you and it should not refrain you from what you wanted to do in life with confidence. 

[ekunadam_enkanna]

Human knowledge is always hypothetical, uncertain, tentative--that's what Bernard Russell meant.  Just because every piece of knowledge is hypothetical, it doesn't mean that we need to descend into "epistemic skepticism".  Just think of sailing on a ship, and that ship starts leaking: just replace those leaky planks with replacements. That's how knowledge progresses. For instance, "law of noncontradiction" is taken as a fact everywhere; 2+2 = 4 is a fact too. When we don't think about issues, we take lots of things as certain; the moment, we start investigating, then we will know the limits of knowledge, circumscribed by what we is not known yet.

A trivium from philosophy of sciences: facts are facts of a theory; there is no fact-theory distinction. 2 + 2 = 4 is a fact of a theory of arithmetic (Peano's axioms); in other areas, we just take arithmetic as certain. 

 

[Amrita]

1 hour ago, Paidithalli said: