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🗓️ 13 March 2023
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0:00.0 | Dr. Craig, we're trying to catch up on some of the questions that we've been needing |
0:14.1 | to get to. |
0:15.9 | The Q&A, I always want to remind people to go to the Q&A section at reasonablepate.org. |
0:23.1 | Not only will you probably find your question there or some version of it, but you'll find |
0:29.4 | it interesting as well as you go through those questions. |
0:33.4 | Here are some that we've received, Bill, that you can respond to, dear Dr. Craig. |
0:37.8 | If you know something, then do you know that you know that thing? |
0:43.6 | And if you know that, you know that thing, do you know that you know that you know? |
0:49.7 | And so on, the question could be reiterated. |
0:53.0 | For finite human beings, it seems that the answer pretty early on in that series of |
0:57.0 | questions is no. |
0:59.5 | That would just be a psychological limitation of ours. |
1:02.8 | But what about God? |
1:03.8 | Is the answer, yes, add infinitum in that potentially infinite series of questions that |
1:09.5 | could be generated, Ray, in the United States? |
1:12.6 | I want to commend Ray for noticing this epistemological problem. |
1:20.1 | He is quite right in rejecting this thesis that in order to know something, you must know |
1:26.4 | that you know it. |
1:28.4 | Sometimes this is called the KK thesis for know that you know. |
1:33.9 | And he's quite right in saying that the KK thesis would generate a vicious, infinite |
1:40.5 | regress. |
1:42.1 | And what is so significant is that the assumption of this KK thesis lies at the heart of skepticism. |
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