The Questions  ·  the method · the reset

Isn’t this just a clever way of never being pinned down?

A method whose move is to clear everything you cannot defend can look like a method for never having to hold a position at all.

It would be, if the emptying were the end of it.

He was not emptying people of knowledge — he was emptying them of false knowledge.

What is left when the borrowed certainty is gone is not nothing.

What this settles

It is the first real question a person has ever asked themselves. The clearing is the first half of a move, and a method that stopped there would deserve the charge — this one does not stop there.

Also asked as

Where this is worked out

strand read

I Know Nothing

session

When Did You Last Change Your Mind About Something Big?

Items without a link are sessions, shorts, strand reads or frameworks that live as video or audio rather than as pages. Everything Philosophy Zero puts out is listed on the Shelf.

Nothing on this page is composed. Every sentence in the answer is drawn from the pieces listed above. Where a claim is compressed, it is compressed from one of them and adds nothing they do not say.

Where this question sits

The withheld verdict

Why the work describes and does not prescribe, what happens to the room the moment it plants a flag, and whether a diagnostic can ever be perfectly neutral. 2 of the 3 here have been worked through; the rest are on the map and not yet walked.

← All the questions