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Monday, July 29, 2024

truth vs. certainty

"Knowledge consists in the search for truth… It is not the search for certainty."

Karl Popper, born on this day in 1902, on truth vs. certainty and the dangers of relativism: https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/26/karl-popper-in-search-of-a-better-world-truth-certainty/

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