Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

Optimism. Ideas from @ToKTeacher, @DavidDeutschOxf, @naval, and Karl Popper. Curated by @pixelhacks. youtube.com/channel/UCbk8a… Joined March 2022

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

4 hours ago

If you’re starting with a bad basis for the theory of knowledge, then you’re going to decide on a bunch of things that are false when you think they might be true. @naval

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

10 hours ago

Propositions are represented by symbols in, for example, formal logic and pure mathematics. We assume they are true in order to find proofs of theorems. @ToKTeacher

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One judges arguments as explanations, not justifications, and one does this creatively, using conjecture, tempered by every kind of criticism. It is in the nature of good explanations – being hard to vary – that there is only one of them. @DavidDeutschOxf

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

22 hours ago

Sometimes you read a book and it makes a difference right away. Sometimes you read a book and you don’t understand it; then you read it at the right time and it makes a difference. @naval

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

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The dogmatist insists they cannot be wrong, and the relativist says they cannot be wrong; the dogmatist says that anyone who disagrees with them is certainly wrong, and the relativist says that everyone else is just as wrong as they are. @ToKTeacher

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

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The reason I love The Beginning of Infinity is that Deutsch does a very rigorous review of what is correct in epistemology, what we know to be the best answers. Once you have a good theory of knowledge, then you can decide what else is true. @naval

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

2 days ago

Current ideas—our best ideas—are criticised—strongly, constantly. As harshly as we can. Not because we dislike them necessarily but because we love them and the best we can do for them is to improve them. Have them lead to the birth of new ideas. New creations. @ToKTeacher

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All the free marketeers, no matter what their stripes are, would have far more allies if they had fewer purity tests. @ToKTeacher

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We are products of nature, but nature has made us together with our power of altering the world, of foreseeing and of planning for the future, and of making far-reaching decisions for which we are morally responsible. — Karl Popper

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

2 days ago

SOCRATES: No, I am not sure of anything. I never have been. But the god explained to me why that must be so, starting with the fallibility of the human mind and the unreliability of sensory experience. @DavidDeutschOxf

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

3 days ago

You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence “democracy”, and the other “tyranny”. — Karl Popper

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An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death. @DavidDeutschOxf

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But what prevents [Freud’s and Adler’s] theories from being scientific in the sense here described is, very simply, that they do not exclude any physically possible human behaviour. — Karl Popper

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3 days ago

The epistemologist (or psychologist) interested in learning should be concerned with how a person is able to take pieces of knowledge and (re-)create it in their own mind through the process of creative and critical thinking. @ToKTeacher

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

4 days ago

Generating good explanations is what humans do uniquely that no other creature, no other computer, no other intelligence—biological or artificial—that we have ever encountered does. @naval

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

4 days ago

Changing our genes in order to improve our lives and to facilitate further improvements is no different in this regard from augmenting our skin with clothes or our eyes with telescopes. @DavidDeutschOxf

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

4 days ago

For all societies or individuals, problems are inevitable. Some large number could be lethal and will be lethal. Unless, of course, the problem is identified in time and corrected in time. But that requires criticism in time and continuous criticism in time. @ToKTeacher

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Every person wants to be free to solve their own problems. To do this, they need to be able to create the conditions under which they can flourish and survive. This means creating wealth. @ToKTeacher

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

5 days ago

We solve the worst of our problems only to multiply the number of better, more interesting problems. This is why the world around us improves. @ToKTeacher

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Knowledge Theorie @TOKphysics

5 days ago

Making something social destroys the truth of it because social groups need consensus to survive—otherwise they fight and can’t get along—and consensus is all about compromise, not truth-seeking. @naval