#knowability — Public Fediverse posts
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MARCUS: Nor am I asham’d, as some others are, to confess I do not know, what I do not.
[Nec me pudet ut istos fateri nescire quod nesciam.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 25 (1.25) / sec. 60 (1.60) (45 BC) [tr. Wase (1643)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
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“If we lived in a #culture with a higher tolerance for ambiguity, rather than obsession with measurement, fixed #identity, and #knowability, transition wouldn’t be so confounding to #people, and the process might be more normal. #Epistemologically, we are anal retentive. Not rigorous, just stressed out. We need to know what a trans #girl is. What are you, #trans people get asked. Where are you from, #people of colour get asked. White #supremacist #capitalism wants to make a #map of #everything, and then #monetize the ways that things move around the #map. Basically literally. The #museum.”
— Baer, H., 2022. Trans Girl Suicide Museum. Los Angeles: Hesse Press. pp. 131-132.