We really only need only acknowledge that our understanding is almost certainly limited & our knowledge always provisional. I don't understand people who prefer to remain mired in this lack of perfection rather than doing the best we can with what we've got which is working well.https://twitter.com/andrevanes/status/948288887704772608 …
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Obviously these are the extremes but I think we all have a tendency one way or the other. I do not find science very interesting but I like to see how ideologies and value systems work, take them apart and see what they're made of which I think is a similar psychology.
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I want to know what is true but often on a social level. Why are people saying this? How are they thinking? How did they get here? What do they want on a fundamental level? I get very frustrated with people who'd like us to remain in a fog here.
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Feynman's approach... Answer what can be answered and don't waste time on what can't.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na-KzVwu6es …
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"We get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers… one saying to the other: you don’t know what you are talking about! The second one says: what do you mean by ‘talking’? What do you mean by ‘you’? What do you mean by ‘know’?"
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(and then there are the kind of people who find awe and wonder in the ultimate unknowability of everything and because of that pinch and prod everything to know how shit works)
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