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@joe-shmo saidTotal knowledge must be finite, as it represents what is known. The unknown cannot be considered knowledge. That's more a matter for philosophy and science fiction writers.
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Yes, I've watched the show. It arises from a simple substitution. Take out "God", and replace "Aliens". Its suddenly seems more "scientific" and "liberal" to the audience...but, Houdini just pulled a different rabbit out of the hat. Perhaps, its deeply rooted in our psyche to believe in some great illusion for a reason, and we will always be stuck changing ...[text shortened]... tain the illusion of progress. In essence providing something "to do" while we are here in the loop.
@wildgrass saidYou don't consider the body of "known unknowns" to be knowledge?
Total knowledge must be finite, as it represents what is known. The unknown cannot be considered knowledge. That's more a matter for philosophy and science fiction writers.
@joe-shmo saidThe classical definition of knowledge is in terms of propositions that are believed to be true, for a belief to count as knowledge the belief has to be justified and the proposition that the belief concerns is true. So something that is known to be unknown would be a proposition whose truth isn't known, consider "There are supersymmetric particles.", it's unlikely to be true, but they haven't been completely ruled out by LHC yet as far as I know. So we know that we don't know it, but we do know what it is.
You don't consider the body of "known unknowns" to be knowledge?
Anyhow, I was characterizing "total knowledge" as complete knowledge of the universe and all of its workings( i.e. what we are in pursuit of, not what we have ).
@joe-shmo saidI don't consider known unknowns to be knowledge.
You don't consider the body of "known unknowns" to be knowledge?
Anyhow, I was characterizing "total knowledge" as complete knowledge of the universe and all of its workings( i.e. what we are in pursuit of, not what we have ).