If you can post enough vaguely-phrased questions with no context, is that philosophy?
If you can say enough things about a thing does that mean that you know what the thing is?
Submitted 1 year ago by dope@lemm.ee to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 1 year ago
dope@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Oh whine me a sad song why don’t you? My question is clear enough for anybody who can answer it.
Deestan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Strictly no. But the overlap is significant.
Being able to say things about a thing can be accomplished by memorizing trivia.
Knowing what the thing is implies understanding. This does not automatically follow from knowing trivia.
Though people tend to build an understanding while amassing trivia, so it’s considered a good enough approximation for schools. Hence multiple choice tests. Personally, I think it is lazy and incentivizes wrong ways to teach and bad ways to study.
Also also, this is why the prevalence of internet access and now ChatGPT is so scary for schools: Students can easily provide this appoximated understanding without having any.
dope@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What’s the difference between knowing what a thing is and knowing a bunch of things about a thing?
Is it backstory? Is that the key thing to know?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s relative. If I ask you about a trash can, you can say it’s a can for trash and yeah, you know what it is. But if we’re talking about a person, you can rattle off an entire Wikipedia article of facts about Taylor Swift but you don’t know her.
dope@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Offhand I can’t think of any knowledge about the real world that doesn’t amount to “a bunch of facts”. A big predictive model basically.
theKalash@feddit.ch 1 year ago
It depends on things.
dope@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What’s the difference?
watson387@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
lolwut
bostonbananarama@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you make a question ambiguous enough, can it have an answer?
hashferret@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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dope@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Actually, if the bar on your satisfaction is low enough, you can literally answer any question.