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Question:Only the most wise among us can truly answer your question. The other answers you've received are not sufficient to have vetted such a person. I use that term loosely.

It would take thousands...or even tens-of-thousands of answers before you could find the one who's worthy to offer the one truth in such matters.

This is because all that we know...or think we know...hinges upon philosophy. Even science, mathematics and technology. The one who can answer your question transcends the sciences in these regards.

All I know is how the greatest philosophical thinkers have influenced the direction(s) of mankind with their profound and Seminole arguments. But their theories are just that...GREAT THEORIES.

No one knows which (if any) are "true." In this sense, once you know them all, as well as how they work upon the ebb & flow of civilization...you KNOW that you know nothing.

That's what the statement means. It was true for Socrates...it's just as true now.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Only the most wise among us can truly answer your question. The other answers you've received are not sufficient to have vetted such a person. I use that term loosely.

It would take thousands...or even tens-of-thousands of answers before you could find the one who's worthy to offer the one truth in such matters.

This is because all that we know...or think we know...hinges upon philosophy. Even science, mathematics and technology. The one who can answer your question transcends the sciences in these regards.

All I know is how the greatest philosophical thinkers have influenced the direction(s) of mankind with their profound and Seminole arguments. But their theories are just that...GREAT THEORIES.

No one knows which (if any) are "true." In this sense, once you know them all, as well as how they work upon the ebb & flow of civilization...you KNOW that you know nothing.

That's what the statement means. It was true for Socrates...it's just as true now.

I'm knowledgeable... and some things ARE truly known. It's just that we predict/hypothesis about so many other things, we've lost the dividing line between what is fact and what is fiction.

no human know about all 100%. Mankind is a human nature. It is the gift of our birth. yes, it is truely not known. For mankind a thourough knowledge no needed. Mankind is nothing to do with the knowledge. if someone comes and say that he missed his purse and wishes to go his native and asks for help means, we know nothing about the person, we have no knowledge about his action whether it is true or false, but our mankind begins its work and we are doing in the shape of help. if we use our knowledge, then it is called investigation and for investigation we find no time and therefore, the work to knowledge disappears and mankind succeeds. Every human is having mankind and every human is not having nothing about the ''truely known''.. in fact no one is here as truely known, becoz no one knows the truely known. it is a great philosophical theory and if i begin to narrate it will to pages to pages. certainly, you caught the above from a famous note and put it here to get what actually it mean. it means actually, what is not there and projecting it as there and what is there is that projecting as what is nothing. This is the theory and basic to your question. it is very difficult to understand and if begin to understand, surely no one will be there to hear patiently, as the above are the great subject and tasty too to learn. ok..

Funny question.
If my answer were "yes," then I'd be contradicting myself, and my answer to the other question would logically be another "yes," though if my answer to the first were true (which is impossible), then my second answer would be false.
If my answer were "no," then the second question is avoided. How could something possibly be known if knowledge is not known? Ya know?

Knowledge has its roots in evidence and convition. The reality is that the "knowledge" that we "know" is based on our beliefs, and it's validity is always questionable both by the public and personally.

Awareness is a relative issue. Mankind knows through common sense which comes from conventionality. Men's knowledgeable depend on their own society/environment where they live among it. Men from different societies are knowledgeable by the demonstrative THAT, or by a universal language. To conclude, man is knowledgeable through his own perception which is driven by conventionality.

Mankind knows that nothing is truly unknowable if it is predicated of his species to be able to know it. That is why the naysayers of doubt, like Kant with his "noumena" are wrong.