Posted by P. Richard Hansen on July 19, 1999 at 12:42:33:

In Reply to: Science is not knowledge? posted by Lauri Grohn on July 19, 1999 at 12:01:02:

Lauri,

you allready have my answer on that.

Now I have a question for you:

The scientific papers you talk of; do they stand unite to you. Do you see no contradictions or disagreements in these papers, do they all tell you the same and universal truth?.
What is knowledge?.
Define knowledge and then tell me why there are so many "truths" in our world!.
Then tell me why your truth is the "real truth"?.

I hope you will try to answer these questions and that you will learn "the truth" about them.
I am not trying to tell you that you should see or understand my "truth".
I ask you to accept that knowledge is socially constructed. That a chair is something to sit on, only because we have agreed upon it.
That a child sits on a chair because the parents places it on the chair, or because the child sees us sitting on them, and not because we told it to.
Things we have experiensed, learned and agreed upon together, is common knowledge, but if we try to tell it to a third person, either by words or symbols, it will only be information about an event or a phenomenon that this person can never take fully part of.

Best regards
Richard

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Follow Ups:

• Misconception about "social constructions". Lauri Gröhn 15:50:32 7/19/99 (16)
  • Re: social constructions and disagreement Kees de Vos 06:04:56 7/20/99 (1)
    • Re: social constructions and disagreement Lauri Grohn 07:21:28 7/20/99 (0)
  • Re: Misconception about "social constructions". P. Richard Hansen 16:57:22 7/19/99 (13)
    • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". Lauri Gröhn 17:55:42 7/19/99 (12)
      • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". P. Richard Hansen 19:10:06 7/19/99 (11)
        • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". Reilly Atkinson 16:17:26 7/20/99 (9)
          • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". P. Richard Hansen 17:02:01 7/20/99 (8)
            • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". Reilly Atkinson 18:52:00 7/20/99 (7)
              • That book Lauri Gröhn 03:25:29 7/21/99 (1)
                • Re: That book P. Richard Hansen 07:20:47 7/21/99 (0)
              • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". P. Richard Hansen 20:17:20 7/20/99 (4)
                • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". Reilly Atkinson 19:19:14 7/21/99 (3)
                  • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". P. Richard Hansen 21:29:50 7/21/99 (2)
                    • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". Reilly Atkinson 13:07:21 7/22/99 (0)
                    • Philosophy of sosiology is not philosophy of... Lauri Grohn 03:11:58 7/22/99 (0)
        • Let a thousand flowers bloom... and add to the diversity of perspectives needed for "living in interesting times." Martyn R Jones 23:38:44 7/19/99 (0)

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