forum for week of 26 September: skepticism

Why do we acknowledge that we don't REALLY know anything when confronted with philosophical skepticism? I see the relevance of accepting our ignorance and limitations, especially in how we perceive the world, in making a response to this question. The first thing that popped into my mind while reading the discussion topic was a quote by Socrates, "The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing." We tend to think that more knowledge means more intelligence. It's true but I believe it is also a humbling experience. When we learn new, amazing, and controversial things to be true, I am sure some of us out there will realize how ignorant we actually are through the "enlightenment" (it could be proved to be false or fallible again in the future). In <The Invisible Gorilla>, the first two chapters give several examples and case studies that show how human perception and memory can be misleading and fallible. We believe we saw things one way but in reality, it was in another way. We are surprised to see a gorilla walking past the basketball court because we didn't see it while we were counting the balls being thrown around. Something that seemed so trivial to one individual was an traumatic experience to another leading to two different accounts of the same situation. We rely on these memories and perception to understand the world around us, and most of the time we are caught believing things the way we want to. The more we become aware of the misleading aspects of human nature we once had so much faith in, I believe it leaves room for us questioning already established "truths". We all once had a situation where something we believed so firmly to be true was proven or argued against to be false, either converting or weakening our beliefs. We live in a world where "truth/false" is proved to be "false/true", the irrational is explained to be rational or vice versa. Therefore, I believe that whether we fully comprehend it or not, we have an underlying understanding of our limitations which will leave us searching for an absolute truth and questioning the already established "truths". And thus, I think it may be a possibility that a person will end up agreeing that we do not REALLY know anything when encountered by philosophical skepticism for the very reasons mentioned above.