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Which is ironic because the pursuit of knowledge only continues to increase the landscape of unknowns towards infinity - the branches of the tree of undiscovere
by kirse 5y ago
Which is ironic because the pursuit of knowledge only continues to increase the landscape of unknowns towards infinity - the branches of the tree of undiscovered and unknown knowledge continues to grow exponentially. It's as-if today we thought the choices were A or B, yet tomorrow we discover there was a C, and the next day D and so forth. If anything we are only discovering we are "more wrong" every day.
- tines 5y agoActually I think this is the same fallacy as one of Zeno's paradoxes, and has the same resolution. We are discovering more wrong, as you say, but the "infinity" of wrongs is in the direction of the infinitely small (or "infinitely detailed"), not the infinitely large. In other words, every time we fill in a gap in our knowledge, we create two more gaps, so to speak, but nevertheless we know more than we did before.