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  1. Posts : 8,679
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    The only source of knowledge is experience.
    Albert Einstein
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  2. Posts : 31,250
    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
       #342

    StalkeR said:
    The only source of knowledge is experience.
    Albert Einstein
    I actually disagree with Albert here

    If this was the case then we would all have to hit ourselves over the head with a blunt object to know it is not a good idea
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  3. Posts : 8,398
    ultimate 64 sp1
       #343

    maybe you only think it's a bad idea until you actually hit yourself over the head with a blunt object, only after doing it do you know.



    this is an example of a posteriori knowledge - based on empirical evidence - you performed the experiment (hitting yourself), and the resulting pain convinced you it wasn't a good idea.

    before the experiment, it was a belief, which turned into a truth, and knowledge came out of the intersection. it may have been a truth before the experiment, but you didn't know it was.

    however, there's also a proiri knowledge, which is stuff you already know before and without experimenting - eg i know that 'all bachelors are unmarried' - i don't have to get off the couch and talk to every single bachelor to find out whether or not he is married. i know already beforehand, without needing an experiment. Einstein seems to ignore this sort of knowledge.

    then there's more abstract stuff - i 'know' about imaginary numbers, for example, but never experienced them - or do i only 'think' that i 'know'?

    it's certainly a head-scratcher that has puzzled philosophers for thousands of years, and has puzzled mickey for decades.

    if you like scratching your head, read about epistemology.
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  4. Posts : 1
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #344

    Here are some of my favourite quotes:


    ● Love the believer, not the belief.

    ● Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

    ● If you're going through hell .. keep going !

    ● Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

    ● Something I have to remember when seeking revenge: dig two graves.

    ● Cowards die many times before their death, the vailant taste death but once.

    ● You laugh at me because I'm different ? I laugh at you because you're all the same !

    ● Sometimes you're just one person to the world. And sometimes to one person, you are the world.

    ● Everything passes and vanishes. Everything leaves a trace. You often see in the footsteps, what you couldn't see in the face.
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  5. Posts : 53,407
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #345

    They say love is blind...and marriage is an institution. Well, I'm not ready for an institution for the blind just yet.
    ~Mae West

    A Guy
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  6. Posts : 9,582
    Windows 8.1 Pro RTM x64
       #346

    Barman58 said:
    StalkeR said:
    The only source of knowledge is experience.
    Albert Einstein
    I actually disagree with Albert here

    If this was the case then we would all have to hit ourselves over the head with a blunt object to know it is not a good idea
    I think that Doc is currently testing that theory.

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  7. Posts : 31,250
    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
       #347

    I have daily practice too

    I even have a special place for it

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  8. Posts : 896
    Windows 7 Ultimate
       #348

    take all you can, and give nothing back

    ~ some pirates?
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  9. Posts : 6,349
    Windows7 Pro 64bit SP-1; Windows XP Pro 32bit
       #349

    And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
    Confucius
    551 BC- 479 BC
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  10. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #350

    “The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.”

    Khalil Gibran
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