How Do You Know You Know Something? 

Yes, this isn't a comprehensive treatment of everything that every philosopher has ever said, but hopefully it is useful for you to think about the lens through which you view your research.

knowing is a human word we made and made up its meaning. to know means to understand something basically. the ways of knowing are the tools we have to get to our definition of knowing something. our ways and tools of knowing require logic and evidence to be taken seriously and produce outcomes. our tools work well enough because they produce evidence based outcomes most if not all of the time. knowing is not a black and white concept. we can know something 50%,60% or x%. the skeptisism how do we know that we know something is actually a thing that is doubting. its what ifing basically. since we can what if everything, we can doubt all of our knowledge and how we get there in the first place if taken to the extreme we can go full descartes more (the philosopher) and even further than that. however, in the human experience that we are having we cannot achieve perfection. otherwise chances are we wouldve found it thus the problem of knowing wouldnt exist. but does it really? lets assume that we cant know anything and that this premise is true despite its self defeating role. we can achieve pretty good outcomes that serve us in the human experience. we can get an understanding in our human experience that serves us no matter if we cant ''know'' anything. even if all the skeptics are true. the world works. you wont see a skeptic jump of a bridge if he doubts his eyesight gravity and so on. you wont see a skeptic not drink water because he doubts water to be a thing required for human survival. the fact that we cant achieve perfection in anything, doesnt mean we cant achieve good-enoughness and that we cant continue striving for better and learn in the cases we make mistakes. so we need to for now at least - until a better alternative is out there - do what we can with what we have. in case someone disagrees with this comment. think about it. does it change anything? even if im wrong here does it change anything? live life and see for your self. do you need water? does gravity work? do all those what if's come true? does it matter if ''absolute'' truth and ''absolute'' certainty exist? do you want a life where you doubt everything or do you want a functional life for you, your children and advance human kind further? thats my take on it. apply any philosophy and thought experiment on it. it doesnt really matter. we can clearly have a good enough advancing and self correcting human experience despite any philosophical stuff going on and no matter what its true. in the human experience of things things just are. you have 80 years to live on earth. psychology says that 80+% of our worries dont even come true (what ifing is another form of worrying). the whole thing really changes nothing. the regress arguement, full blown skeptisism, empirealism, any ''ism'' that exists. it really changes nothing. you have a life to live. its stable enough and you can use tools to improve it and figure out stuff when stuff goes wrong. just do that. it will be fine in the long run

Hi James really love your talks and taking the time to share inform and debate challenging Philosophical discussions. Keep up the great work.

Scientific data is a complex system. Can you speak of a captured system of data collection. Can you speak of audience capture and peer review.

Beautifully explained. A good primmer. 😎

Good video

Thank you for saving me so much money... I mean Popper`s books aint seem to be most cheep ones to buy.