This simple tool:
- Places you in a weird philosophical situation.
- Questions your beliefs.
- Makes you more confident in your beliefs (after some self-reflection).
- Teaches you to recognize that you know absolutely nothing.
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Any statement that a human says can be responded to with the simple question: "Why?".
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Doing this repeatedly will make them, in the end, either:
① lose their minds
② make them say "I don't know." -
At that point you can disregard the validity of their original statement and they will look like a fool.
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The longer someone can continue without doing these 2 things, the more confident and stable they are in their opinions & psychology.
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Everything we say (knowledge and beliefs in epistemology), are founded on other things say. Ultimately what you say is just beliefs.
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The brightest, most confident person, would be able to respond to an infinite amount of why's.
"Gravity exists → Because we have observed it → Because we are observant creatures by nature → Because we rely on a pair of eyes to make decisions → Because eyes are the best thing we have to be aware of our surroundings → That's just how the monad wanted it to be → I don't know"