What is the draw to the claim that we can't know things

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2017-07-12 05:17:53 Post No. 9747106
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Anonymous 2017-07-12 05:17:53 Post No. 9747106 [Report]

What is the draw to the claim that we can't know things in of themselves when we can directly reproduce things synthetically?

Anonymous 2017-07-12 05:22:56 Post No.9747125
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Anonymous 2017-07-12 05:22:56 Post No.9747125 [Report]

>>9747106
Read Kant

Anonymous 2017-07-12 05:25:54 Post No.9747132
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Anonymous 2017-07-12 05:25:54 Post No.9747132 [Report]

>>9747125
Kant dodges the issue, just like PoMos did. Cognitive skepticism loses its appeal in in light of the functioning of bridges and synthetic insulin etc.

Anonymous 2017-07-12 05:31:30 Post No.9747152
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Anonymous 2017-07-12 05:31:30 Post No.9747152 [Report]

>>9747132
Because...?

Anonymous 2017-07-12 05:33:24 Post No.9747157
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Anonymous 2017-07-12 05:33:24 Post No.9747157 [Report]

>>9747132
Put simply, I think their idealism becomes pure eschatology, as a kind of rhetorical refuge, to deal with the objective failure of anti-enlightenment epistemology and its predictions.

Anonymous 2017-07-12 05:35:33 Post No.9747162
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Anonymous 2017-07-12 05:35:33 Post No.9747162 [Report]

It would be helpful if someone could actually answer the OP, rather than dodge it.

What is the draw to the claim that we can't know things

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