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Jul 11, 2014 · Science is a continual challenging of common sense, and the core of science is not certainty, it’s continual uncertainty—I would even say, the joy of being aware that in everything we think ...
- Carlo Rovelli
The separation of science and the humanities is relatively...
- Carlo Rovelli
Jul 27, 2022 · That is something very different from saying "certainty is not possible". To be precise, if certainty were not possible in math, we could not be sure that 1+1 is indeed 2 with 1 and 2 being natural numbers. But we are certain about that. Absolutely certain. And we are certain about quite a few other things as well.
May 30, 2012 · Science is a continuous challenge of common sense, and the core of science is not certainty, it's continuous uncertainty. I would even say the joy of taking what we think, being aware that in everything we think, there are probably still an enormous amount of prejudices and mistakes, and try to learn to look a little bit larger, knowing that there is always a larger point of view that we'll ...
Feb 2, 2008 · Certainty. First published Sat Feb 2, 2008; substantive revision Mon Feb 21, 2022. Certainty, or the attempt to obtain certainty, has played a central role in the history of philosophy. Some philosophers have taken the kind of certainty characteristic of mathematical knowledge to be the goal at which philosophy should aim.
Aug 25, 2014 · Scientific objectivity is a property of various aspects of science. It expresses the idea that scientific claims, methods, results—and scientists themselves—are not, or should not be, influenced by particular perspectives, value judgments, community bias or personal interests, to name a few relevant factors. Objectivity is often considered ...
Jul 20, 2021 · To respond to these central questions, the authors argue that “science aims at understanding, not certainty” (p. 194). That is, the goal of science is not to eliminate uncertainty, because this is not possible. Rather, the goal is to increase our understanding of the world.
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Feb 2, 2008 · One is that there are different kinds of certainty, which are easy to conflate. Another is that the full value of certainty is surprisingly hard to capture. A third reason is that there are two dimensions to certainty: a belief can be certain at a moment or over some greater length of time. 1. Kinds of certainty. 2.
