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I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
I know that I know nothing, a saying that is sometimes (somewhat inaccurately) attributed to Socrates; Socratic fallacy, the view that using a word meaningfully requires being able to give an explicit definition of it; Socratic intellectualism, the view that nobody ever knowingly does wrong
This statement relates to Socrates' understanding and attitude towards death and his commitment to fulfilling his goal of investigating and understanding the statement of the Pythia (i.e., that there was no one wiser than Socrates).
Solipsism (/ ˈ s ɒ l ɪ p s ɪ z əm / ⓘ SOLL-ip-siz-əm; from Latin solus ' alone ' and ipse ' self ') [1] is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.
Socrates is known for disavowing knowledge, a claim encapsulated in the saying "I know that I know nothing". This is often attributed to Socrates on the basis of a statement in Plato's Apology , though the same view is repeatedly found elsewhere in Plato's early writings on Socrates. [ 104 ]
I know that I know nothing – Famous saying by Socrates; Illusion of explanatory depth – Form of cognitive bias; Illusory superiority – Cognitive bias; Intellectual humility – Recognition of the limits of your knowledge and awareness of your fallibility; Easiness effect – Epistemic overconfidence instilled by pop-sci oversimplifications
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In such a case, the sentence "the sentence p is an unknown truth" is true; and, if all truths are knowable, it should be possible to know that "p is an unknown truth". But this isn't possible, because as soon as we know " p is an unknown truth", we know that p is true, rendering p no longer an unknown truth, so the statement " p is an unknown ...