{"id":1988,"date":"2022-06-20T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T09:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/06\/20\/i-know-my-limits\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T09:48:31","slug":"i-know-my-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/06\/20\/i-know-my-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know My Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I know my limits, but I also know that I have limits that I don&#39;t know.&#0160; &#0160;Complete self-knowledge would require both knowledge of my known limits and knowledge of my unknown limits. Complete self-knowledge, therefore, is impossible.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">(Note how &#39;I&#39; is used above.&#0160; It is not being used as the first-person singular pronoun. It is being used as a universal quantifier. As above used, &#39;I&#39; does not have an antecedent; it has substituends (linguistic items) and values (non-linguistic items). The above use of &#39;I&#39; is a legitimate use, not a misuse.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02a30d402298200b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Know-Your-Limits-1\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02a30d402298200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02a30d402298200b-500wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Know-Your-Limits-1\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know my limits, but I also know that I have limits that I don&#39;t know.&#0160; &#0160;Complete self-knowledge would require both knowledge of my known limits and knowledge of my unknown limits. Complete self-knowledge, therefore, is impossible.&#0160; (Note how &#39;I&#39; is used above.&#0160; It is not being used as the first-person singular pronoun. It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/06\/20\/i-know-my-limits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Know My Limits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,39,353,6,408,328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament","category-knowledge","category-language-matters","category-language-philosophy-of","category-self-self-awareness-self-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}