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This hasn't been true historically. Almost all of the times we have been confident that we understood something, we have been wrong.
by anonymoushn 14y ago
This hasn't been true historically. Almost all of the times we have been confident that we understood something, we have been wrong.
- gruseom 14y agoThat's a powerful argument for the GP.
- roguecoder 14y agoThat is because almost all the time we are wrong, whether we were confident or not. However, we were generally less-wrong that were were before. I recommend Asimov's article on the matter: http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
- philwelch 14y agoThere are also step functions when dogma comes into the question. Copernicus and Galileo were both right about heliocentrism, but when heliocentrism was politically incorrect, the scientific consensus was wrong.