"My epistemological question is this - what do we know about knowing they don't? What is our procedural epistemology - if we don't have one, are we just smug not-quite so lackwits?"
4) Hone your memory and deceive yourself. If you remember everything without discrimination, then you will become overwhelmed quickly. Learn to prioritize your memory data structures, pulling first the essence, then the extract, then the summary, then the notes, then the details, then the whole frigging compendium if necessary to glean the utmost meaning for a referenced topic. If you are intellectually superior, then you will find that you have many "unwanted thoughts", "doubts", "misgivings", and "strange notions." Learn how to hide these from yourself using a context oriented keying system. To give a simple example, you don't "allow yourself to think" the same thoughts in church or a court of law that you would think while in bed with a prostitute or someone else's spouse EH? RIIGGGHHHHTTTTT! Focus upon those mental tricks until you attain satisfaction. Before proceeding to step 5, repeat steps 1-4 until no further progress is forthcoming. Congratulations! Your are now self-decieved, possibly an incorrigible pathological liar, a scheming, deceptive person, maybe even a *MISANTHROPE*. If you qualify, then you may permit yourself to visualize the broad yellow stripe which stains your back, you *COWARD*! LOLOL LOLOL LOLOL "A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but one." Right, and who gets to laugh and pi$$ on the other's grave EH? EH? EH? EHHHHH? Lonnie Courtney Clay p.s. Bonhomie aside, I have nothing of any particular value to lose, since I am "mostly harmless" and negligible, hence my frankness. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/epistemology/-/Q3h3dnBFbVVTNFFK. To post to this group, send email to epistemology@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.