it’s odd, how even Socrates uses the same logically invalid structure: I know that i know nothing.

dialectically, the statement contradicts itself.

but rhetorically, it conveys the importance of understanding our limits.

like if you tell a human being the truth dialectically with precision ,to be right sized, humbly proud, most all can’t do it.

epistemologically, the way humans “know” is how we interface with objective reality. When we use the term “knowledge” to mean certainty of some absolute, it breaks the valid metaphysics and anthropology human knowledge rests upon.

its really highlighting the difference between gnosis, possession of knowledge itself, and philosophy, love of knowledge.

don’t be a Gnostic

we don’t posses knowledge itself

we pursue it, interact with it, with love and care