Mastodawn

Me to my 7 year old tonight: You know Socrates once said, ‘a wise man knows that he knows nothing’…

My 7 year old: But if he knows nothing then he can’t know that he knows nothing. 🧐

Me: But… Socrates… he said… I mean the point is… 😶… just eat your dinner.

At the epistemological level, knowledge is impossible. You can always keep asking: "How do you know that?"

Scientific knowledge is our best (and imperfect) approximation to knowing stuff.

@athyHans As it turns out she wants to be a scientist 🙂