appolose said:
Being ‘gifted’ some absolute knowledge about the world doesn’t necessarily imply one also knows where it came from. A person simply can’t claim any absolute knowledge he has came from his own abilities (rationalism, empiricism, whatever) as the meaning of them in our mind confesses otherwise. Whereas, the meaning of revelation in our mind works as an answer to epistemology (a question also in our mind, if I needed to specify that). |
All right, so here's the thing: if I understand you correctly, there is "absolute knowledge" that comes from Outside One's Own Abilities (revelation, God, what-have-you) and then there's also, uh... "fallible knowledge" that comes from one's own abilities (rationalism, empiricism, whatever).
But, if "being 'gifted' some absolute knowledge about the world doesn't necessarily imply one also knows where it came from," then how do I know, for any given piece of knowledge, if it's in the "absolute knowledge" camp, or the "fallible knowledge" camp? Because, in order to know which it is, I would have to know where it came from, correct? (Because the source is actually what determines what it is.)
So, for instance, if I believe that I know that the sky is blue, but I don't know where that knowledge comes from... then how do I know if it's absolute, or fallible? Or, when I think I know that x = x, same question--if I don't know the source of that knowledge, how can I tell if it's absolute?
