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Well, certainty isn't available whatever the facts! So it's not relevant here. There's no contradiction between fallibilism and asserting that some scientific explanation is true. …

No no. That's only a 'possible' explanation. In articles such as these you'll find plenty of 'may'-s, 'might'-s, 'can'-s and 'further research'-s. The vagueness and intellectual co…

Will I live longer, or not? Are hot peppers good for my health, or not? Is the mechanism known, or not? Are they recommended by experts, or not?

Hear. Hear. Such habits are only bad if they are used as a means to avoid important problems. Attend to those problems! Then the habit will continue or die away according to its me…

Here is James Burke on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeROEoimj7I And here's Primitive Technology man: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA (Should…

"I know it with I see it". Yes indeed. One has to interact with a person to know that he knows stuff.

There are whoppers out there capable of resetting civilisation. Do we have to have a small city destroyed before we design and build the technology to avert all future impacts?

Well physical quantities like length, time can be measured. Also fungible goods like wheat, oil. But knowledge is differentiated, non-homogenous and subject-specific. So it isn't m…

Problem is that knowledge can't be measured because it's not a list of contents that can be checked off. Deep knowledge in one area is by its nature integrated with other areas. Th…

Agreed. The process is spontaneous and natural. But it can be and usually is damaged, that is confined to smaller and smaller areas of one's life or worldview.

Check out the FBI file: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/fbi... The sheer amount of black ink, rubric, marginalia, stampage, redaction, etc, is a reminder o…

Presumably this happens because the stressful situation or memory repeatedly activates the attention system thereby priming it towards the stressor and making it hard to address an…