Wall of Mouths

What’s he the patron saint of? Nonsense?

“Make up stupid dances man, not war.”

S.W. Ryder

;)

hoochalobster wrote:

I understand, and indeed believe, that you believe I don’t understand

yes.

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but do you understand that you believe I don’t understand?

yes

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I believe you don’t.

I believe you are mistaken. But I also believe you believe I am wrong about my belief that you are mistaken. But don’t worry: I understand.

You have no goggles. :p

Disprove it. :p

allroy wrote:

“I know that I don’t know” - Aristotle

Are you sure? I thought that was Socrates/Plato?
The one thing that I know is that I know nothing.

:D:D

Excellent. ;)

If I did have a belief, and if I was mistaken in that belief (the belief that I made the mistake of believing in), then you would not be mistaken to believe that I was mistaken. However (and this is important) if I did not have a belief that I was mistaken to believe in, then you would be mistaken to believe that I had mistaken any of the beliefs that I had the mistake to believe in in the first place (as you say). If you believed that you were mistaken to believe that I was mistaken to beleieve any of the beliefs that I had made the mistake to believe in in the first place, and that you believe I am mistaken, then all you say is that you believe both that I am mistaken and that you are mistaken to believe this. Since belief is not equivalent to understanding (unless I am very much mistaken- and I believe I am not) , then it is possible to believe two contradictory things, so long as you believe that one of them may be mistaken.

I luckily don’t have this problem, as I don’t believe at all. Oh, and so you know, Aristotle was in fact the number one authority on ancient greek tradgedy (for example, the works of Sophocles). Plus, everone should know thst it was Socretes who said ‘Knoledge is knowing that you know nothing’ because it was in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, dudes. :cool:

Idlevice2 wrote:

Oh, and so you know, Aristotle was in fact the number one authority on ancient greek tradgedy (for example, the works of Sophocles).

I _do_ know! :mad: :p
(My first dissertation was on Tragedy. Harrumph :D)

@tgE: Hmm, I’ll think about it. ;)

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to
claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.

Cardinal Bellarmine
—Attributed (said during the trial of Galileo)

I dont know where I read it but I found it quite funny:

“Its better to keep your mouth shut and have everyone think you are an idiot, rather than to open it and prove them right”

mo·ron Pronunciation Key (môrn, mr-)
n.

1. A stupid person; a dolt.
2. Psychology. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.