Epistemology
On Friday, Toiletoverflowing will hold another session in his much-ignored, intermittently scheduled philosophy lecture series. The topic for this Friday’s lecture is epistemology, which is the study of knowledge and justified belief.
Toiletoverflowing will focus on the question, is knowledge truly knowable or does what we call “knowledge” consist of merely a set of beliefs that we have come to accept as justified? Furthermore, are those justifications based on verifiable, reproducible, tangible facts external to us or have the justifications been built and accepted solely within our minds? In other words, is knowledge and our perception of truth real or only an illusion?
Unlike was the case before his last talk, I have not been able to obtain a copy of Toiletoverflowing’s notes for this week’s lecture, so I can’t comment on its merits. However, I expect it to be one of his shorter philosophy talks as it is widely known that Toiletoverflowing believes that all knowledge, including the knowledge of whether knowledge is knowable, is unknowable. The impossibility of knowing knowledge, if that is the case, raises the question of why he bothers to give lectures at all, but never mind.
Toiletoverflowing does not yet have a room booked for this week’s lecture. However, it will not be the room he had last time, 2B, as it is being used on Friday for the eighth annual Moldyjellybean memorial service. Moldyjellybean isn’t yet dead, but the attendees keep hoping.
I can’t yet tell you what room Toiletoverflowing’s lecture will be in, but if you are saying to yourself, “2B or not 2B, that is the question,” I can definitely say that, because of the Moldyjellybean memorial service, it’s not 2B.
I believe refreshments will be served at the lecture, but now that I think about it, I don’t truly know that they will be served.
Are you and/or Poopydiaper planning to go to the lecture and collect large fees from attendees for applying to join the Shalampax Mensa chapter? This strikes me as a perfect audience from whom to fleece those fees. They would most assuredly have enormous egos as erudite philosophers that would fall right into that trap – and since there is no such fee to join Mensa, it is a lucrative scam.
@David: Excellent idea! I’ll discuss it with Poopydiaper. I’m sure she’s looking for ways to capture some money off her Mensa venture. In fact, if you always assume that money-making is the impetus for every Shalampaxian action, you won’t be wrong very often.
You weren’t expecting a cut of the revenue, were you? You’re not likely to get one. After all, we are Shalampaxians.
By the way, while there are no fees to join the international Mensa organization, the national groups can charge subscription fees and fees to administer IQ tests or to evaluate tests taken elsewhere. I’m sure Poopydiaper has this in mind.
Expecting a cut of the revenue???? Ha ha ha lol. That’s a laugh.
I might just as well “expect” to take a walk on the moon this afternoon and find the trunk that Bernie Madoff used for hiding his millions and millions of scammed dollars.
I don’t know what to believe, but I do have a pair of Bernie’s swimming trunks. No money in there.
@David: Your assessment of your prospects are correct.
@Doctor Faustroll: Believe nothing, particularly if it involves a Shalampaxian, although I don’t know about Bernie.
And here I thought epistomology was that incision the obstetrician made in the pregnant woman’s hooha so the baby could be born more easily. I think that would make a more interesting lecture. If 2B is available.
@Patricia: I’m pretty sure that Toiletoverflowing don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ babies.
Uhmm Dr Faustroll those are definitely not the kind of trunks I was thinking about and now that you have gone there…well, I just may have to re-evaluate your position in the cosmos – from my perspective that is.
Cheers