In a related sense, philosophically, gaining knowledge can be seen as narrowing down the ways in which things might be. In practice, however, gaining knowledge

In a related sense, philosophically, gaining knowledge can be seen as narrowing down the ways in which things might be. In practice, however, gaining knowledge often increases our awareness of how things might be even faster than it removes possibilities that we formerly considered: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio..."