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Question: What do you know that you do not know!?
Take the "that" as an equals sign, and the question becomes the paradoxical one, what is it that you both know and do not know (simultaneously)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Well, now!. To begin and end at the same time, it is not a "paradox" to believe in something you simultaneously "know and do not know!." What it is, is a contradiction of all 3 Laws of Consciousness:
1!. The law of Identity--""A is A" affirms that, no matter what thing you are talking about, it has a certain nature--its own certain nature, its own way that it is!. This thing A has A-nature!." http://clublet!.com/why!?LawOfIdentity

2!. The law of Non-contradiction--"The law of contradiction means that two antithetical propositions cannot both be true at the same time and in the same context!." http://orpheus!.ucsd!.edu/phenom/old/lawno!.!.!.

3!. The law of the Excluded Middle--"A proposition is either true or false, but cannot be both or neither!." http://www!.importanceofphilosophy!.com/Di!.!.!.

So, "what you know" has the nature of being what it is and cannot be the other!.

What you do not know cannot in the same context have the same nature and be the same because it is anti-thetical!.

If "what is it that you both know and do not know (simultaneously)" are not anti-thetical to each other, you have some explaining to do!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

um life i da know this is like a double negative it only works in Spanish!. so therefor is a different language than which i understand!. but i do know that a wise person is a person who knows that they don't know everything about everything!. and a smart person knows something about everything but a genius knows a lot about one something!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Many things!. Grammar, for one!. I use it, but I cannot completely describe it or explain it!.

The same is true with much expert skill!.

Ergo, I know it, but I don't know it!.

Or did you have something else in mind!.

Read "Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing"-Socrates

in my case WOman lol
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good question!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i know that im here, right now!.

but on the other hand, this could be a dream or unreal
who knows if we are actually here!. who knows what here actually is!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i know that i exist (as in my brain telling me consciously that I exist) but at the same time I do not know because too others, I might not exist!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I know that I don't know how to work a MacBook!. They're so complicated! Grr!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I know that I don;t know your age!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

things beyond what i knowWww@QuestionHome@Com