PhilosophyMemes

244 readers

180 users here now

Memes must be related to phil.

The Memiverse:
!90s_memes@quokk.au
!y2k_memes@quokk.au
!sigh_fi@quokk.au

founded 1 month ago

MODERATORS

Deceptichum@quokk.au

274

he don't know (quokk.au)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/philosophymemes@quokk.au

19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

More like:

ME: Aw, hey, don't say that. You know things.

SOCRATES: Oh really? You seem well informed about me. Tell me, what is it that I know?

ME: Well, uh, you know that's a tree, right?

SOCRATES: Do I? What makes you confident that I know that?

ME: Uh, you know, you can see that it's shaped like a tree...

SOCRATES: Perhaps, but don't you think that other things could be shaped like trees, sometimes?

ME: Uh... like what?

SOCRATES: Hey, I'm asking the questions here, wise guy! Anyway, you seem to know a lot about trees, can you tell me how to know the difference between a tree and a large bush?

ME: Well I'm actually not, like, a botanist...

SOCRATES: So you don't know? But you seemed so confident that I knew! Perhaps it's not trees you're well informed about, but knowledge itself? Tell me, what does it mean to know something?

ME: *epistemological stammering*

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Aristophanes: Think normally, ya weirdo!

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Diogenes: presents a wooden back scratcher behold a tree

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For those curious: a tree has one central stem, in bushes all branches are basically the same

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are there species most people think are bushes, but are really trees?

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The line between "tree" and "non tree" is quite vague

Is a palm tree a tree? Depends on the definition you use

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But that's beside the point. A palm is far from a bush. The line between bush and tree is quite clear and intuitive

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

At the same time, I have a very bush-like palm thingy in my garden that if trimmed right can be made into a small palm tree. They're a protected species though, so I just trim it a bit

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

We have a good intuition on the difference between tree and bush. It's rather that species can grow as tree or bush depending on subspecies or environment. Trees aren't closely related too each other but an evolutionary strategy that developed many times independently