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The limitless potential of human knowledge | David Deutsch

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Is There Such a Thing as a Wise Devil?

I think it's got to be the idea of optimism, that all evils are due to lack of knowledge. That is not what most people think of us optimism. Most people think of aism as a feeling of hope about the future. Your definitionis different. Well, well, hope that isn't based on an explanatory theory, is rather, i mean, isn'tit? Isn't that what they call a vain hope? Yes, it's its whistling in the dark te optimism,. As i define it, has do with knowledge. It's not a prediction of the future. It's an explanation of failure. If you explain failure as being inevitable, or due to some male

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