The story of transcendental and posterior knowledge

1. What are transcendental and posterior knowledge?

Transcendental knowledge (before facts) knowledge is the knowledge that people often say can be obtained by lying in an armchair-knowledge obtained through divine revelation, introspection, innate thought, or logical and mathematical deduction; Posterior knowledge (ex post) knowledge is knowledge that can only be obtained by walking into the world to observe.

Second, the original story

At a seminar in the Middle Ages, scholars tried to infer how many teeth there were in a horse's mouth from first principles. During the discussion, a young scholar suddenly made such a suggestion: find a horse, observe its mouth, and then count its teeth, and the problem will be solved. However, once this proposal was put forward, the scholars present were shocked.

Third, the revised story.

Accidentally joined a doctoral group, and then one day a person asked if a drop of water from the sky would kill or hurt people. Then the crowd suddenly became lively. Formulas, hypotheses, theorems, calculations of gravity, resistance and acceleration took more than an hour ... Finally, I couldn't stand it, saying, did you get caught in the rain? Then this group of people suddenly became silent. After a while, I was kicked out.

Fourth, what do you see?

From the perspective of daily life, these are two real jokes, which show the "stupid" state of academic people and extend to the normal state of being unable to take care of themselves in daily life, and also provide direct evidence for the argument that "reading is stupid" They embellish the daily tastes of our people and make our life delicious.

From an academic point of view, they are not wrong, and they must abandon their daily thinking, which can only be obtained through long-term professional training.

When we switch between different pictures, we can see different things. Right or wrong is not important. It ends with a sentence in Tang Bohu's Song of the Peach Blossom Temple: "People laugh at me because I'm crazy, and I can't see through others".