Stan Yoder

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In sum: we love to know things, but ultimately we can’t know for sure that we know them; we are bad at recognizing when we don’t know something; and we are very, very good at making stuff up. All this serves to render the category of “knowledge” unreliable—so much so that this chapter exists largely to convince you to abandon it (if only temporarily, for the purpose of understanding wrongness) in favor of the category of belief.
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
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