Anthony

time for some philosophy 101, muthas

Isn't everything inherently unknowable due to the subjectivity of human experience? And, if that's true, doesn't it follow that literally anything is possible? I understand that hamburgers don't eat people and that the sky is, in fact, blue. But I also find a lot to like in the idea that we, as a human race, know literally nothing. That, for all we know, the immutable laws of physics aren't all that immutable.

How can we say anything is certain if we don't know everything? In order to really know something for sure, we would have to experience everything that had ever happened or will ever happen. By that logic, we should just give up on scientific study of any kind, as we'll never be able to reach a true scientific conclusion because we only truly know what is presented to us. Not only can you not disprove a negative, you can't prove a positive. You can't prove anything. Literally everything we say we know right now could just as easily be disproven in a second with one abnormality or anomaly. So we don't really "know" - We just know until we're given evidence to contradict what we know, and then we know something else. And it's a never ending cycle of knowing without really knowing at all.

A well-known proponent of the "We don't know anything for sure, so in theory, literally anything is possible" argument is Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics