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10053063 No.10053063 [Reply] [Original]

>I know that I know nothing

what did he mean by this?

>> No.10053110

>>10053063
I don't really know

>> No.10053145

>>10053063
Socrates could only be certain that he lacked knowledge. Philosophers he met with would speak in circles and by his probing could only pretend to know "something," proving they actually know nothing.

Relevant example from today, Exhibit A: Deleuze, and the French Marxists in general puffing on blunts saying like what if words don't mean anything maaaaaaaaan

Faggots like this need to read Gorgias

>> No.10053148

>>10053063

0=2

"Wisdom comes from nothingness"

"Thirty spokes are made one by holes in a hub,
By vacancies joining them for a wheel's use;
The use of clay in moulding pitchers
Comes from the hollow of its absence;
Doors, windows, in a house,
Are used for their emptiness:
Thus we are helped by what is not
To use what is."

etc

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10053167

>>10053145
Is this guy another example.

>> No.10053170

>>10053063
Nothing. As he never said it.

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10053798

>>10053063
He means Bitch, be humble.

>> No.10053800

>>10053063
Socrates was dumb lol. Why do you faggots respect him when he literally said that he knows nothing like a loser?

>> No.10053803

>the world changes, and with it, so do out perceptions and understandings of reality

>> No.10053904

I think he meant that the more he learned, the more he realized he didn't know anything.

>> No.10054046

Even though he may know something, our senses are not enough to get to the Truth. He can only be certain in things he doesn't know which in-itself is a form of knowledge.

>> No.10054079

>stupid people think the know everything

>> No.10054187

>>10053063
Socrates always believed that he had no knowledge, and so his goal was to learn more as he is a philosopher. He knew he had not much knowledge. The Socratic method is his way of questioning people to not only understand what they knew but to get out as much information as possible.
Additionally, this is a philosophical paradox, most likely the oldest and most iconic (but do not quote me on that).

But then again he never said it...