Thursday, March 25, 2004
here's something i wrote the other day:
'i would also like to point out that the influence of plato and his pet socrates has become so ubiquitous that i just heard someone say on a radio commercial, 'i don't even know that i don't know'. i guess that places him one rung below socrates on the epistemological ladder.'
here's some illumination from my friend, the first duke of lake beauchamplain:
'I've heard this phenomenon referred to in a computer science journal as "Second-Order Ignorance", First-Order Ignorance being the Socratic type. Some executives at a certain mortgage company that will here go unnamed seem to suffer from the former.'
so there.
'i would also like to point out that the influence of plato and his pet socrates has become so ubiquitous that i just heard someone say on a radio commercial, 'i don't even know that i don't know'. i guess that places him one rung below socrates on the epistemological ladder.'
here's some illumination from my friend, the first duke of lake beauchamplain:
'I've heard this phenomenon referred to in a computer science journal as "Second-Order Ignorance", First-Order Ignorance being the Socratic type. Some executives at a certain mortgage company that will here go unnamed seem to suffer from the former.'
so there.
