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Teresa asked:
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Is knowledge of any kind possible?
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What is the connection, if any, between epistemological truths and moral truths?
I'm failing to see how moral truths come from epistemological truths.
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- I don't understand why you think that "knowledge of any kind" might not be possible. I think I know
a lot of things, for example that Nevada is a State in the United States, or that the sun is quite distant
from the earth, or that water is composed of one part hydrogen and two parts oxygen, and even that
5+7=12. I wonder why do you not think I know these and such things, and that you do not either.
Perhaps, and I am only guessing, it is that you think that you might be mistaken about anything, and if
you know, then it should not be possible for you to be mistaken. I think that is a wrong theory of
knowing, and I think that knowledge does not imply the impossibility of mistake, but the inactuality of
mistake. But, since I am only guessing (and do not know) why you think that knowledge might be
impossible I will wait until I hear from you again.
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- Again I don't know what you mean by an "epistemological truth." Do you, perhaps mean, a
scientific truth or, perhaps, any truth except a moral truth? The Scottish 18th century philosopher,
David Hume, did argue that no moral truths about how things ought to be could be supported by
truths about how things are. Is that what you mean?
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Kenneth Stern
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