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On the edges of knowledge | Michael Shermer vs Rupert Sheldrake
Philosophy For Our Times
The Limits of Human Knowledge and the Importance of Rationality
This chapter explores the limits of human understanding and emphasizes the importance of approaching knowledge with humility. It discusses the role of rationality, science, reason, logic, and empiricism in understanding the world, while highlighting the theories of evolution and the Big Bang as highly probable but not certain. The concept of Bayesian reasoning is explained, along with the idea of assigning probabilities and considering the most likely explanations using the example of UFO sightings.
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