Anyone else cannot know everything about me, however hard I and/or they try.
Can I tell everything about myself to someone else? No. And this is not because I don't want to, it is because I cannot even if I want to, with all my heart.
This is an example of the limitation of communication, of language.
Or is it?
Don't I have to understand/know myself to be able to explain myself to someone else?
What does understanding/knowing mean?
Even if I understand myself will I be able to express it to others?
Knowing myself is not like finding an equation/model that governs me, that predicts my behavior. I don't know what knowing is. I am not even sure if I can know. I seem to be committing the mistake of talking of 'knowing' in the limited sense that science talks about. I think there is much more to knowing than equations and proofs and classifications, predictions, models and probabilities.
1 comment:
Yeah you're perfectly right in saying this that we don't know ourselves. Best proxy for ourselves is our action. It is on the brink of a significant decision that we get to know our own personality. We might be thinking that we value this and that but ultimately what comes out as a decision is what we value, however much we deny.
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