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David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge

The TED Interview

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Is There a Meam That Is False?

We don't expect any of our knowledge to be completely true. Knowledge doesn't have to be true, it just has to contain some truth,. enough tobe useful. The key was the development of processes that could distinguish between meams that were just reproducing and meams that actually were closer to the truth.

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