Materialism

[jeremyp]

Don't know is no answer.

Well, predictably, you've been truly roasted for that one.

"Don't know" is a fine answer if the alternative is making shit up. It's also the first step on the way to finding out. Everything we know about the World we know because somebody was honest enough to admit that they don't know.

[ProfessorDavey]

Well, predictably, you've been truly roasted for that one.

"Don't know" is a fine answer if the alternative is making shit up. It's also the first step on the way to finding out. Everything we know about the World we know because somebody was honest enough to admit that they don't know.

Absolutely - if we do not know we should first accept that we don't know and then work hard to find out so that in due course we don't need to say that we don't know. But that is, of course, how science operates.