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Steve Bosserman on 19 Apr 17

"Since we first started carving notches in sticks, we have used things in the world to help us to know that world. But never before have we relied on things that did not mirror human patterns of reasoning - we knew what each notch represented - and that we could not later check to see how our non-sentient partners in knowing came up with those answers. If knowing has always entailed being able to explain and justify our true beliefs - Plato's notion, which has persisted for over two thousand years - what are we to make of a new type of knowledge, in which that task of justification is not just difficult or daunting but impossible?"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Since we first started carving notches in sticks, we have used things in the world to help us to know that world. But never before have we relied on things that did not mirror human patterns of reasoning - we knew what each notch represented - and that we could not later check to see how our non-sentient partners in knowing came up with those answers. If knowing has always entailed being able to explain and justify our true beliefs - Plato's notion, which has persisted for over two thousand years - what are we to make of a new type of knowledge, in which that task of justification is not just difficult or daunting but impossible?"</div>

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