Shalampax Speaks

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.

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It would appear that the counting skills of Decayingdeadbird, who is now bordering on age-related dementia—and exiled on the wrong side of the border—were always somewhat lacking, to say the least. Decayingdeadbird was the “architect” who designed Shalampax’s building back in 1956. She also oversaw its construction.

It has recently come to the attention of the Government of Shalampax that Decayingdeadbird mislabeled the floors of our building. What she labeled as the third floor, containing apartments numbered beginning with a “3,” is actually the fourth floor. And what she labeled as the fourth floor, with apartments numbered beginning with “4,” is the third floor.

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