Originally Posted by
Dianeva
The argument makes some sense with the word "knowledge". Since almost anyone who's thought about it will agree that you can't know anything with 100% certainty (apart from perhaps "I think therefore I am" and "there is an experience of ______", etc), but the term 'know' technically means "to know with 100% certainty". If you recognize that, then the term "know" becomes useless in everyday life. Anyone who has thought about it can't use the term without lying. So people start saying that "knowledge" means "close to 100% certainty". I'm not sure what to think about it.
