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1 week agoPlato's Cave in the Age of Misinformation
Self-awareness and intellectual humility require recognizing knowledge limits, revising mistaken beliefs, and staying open to alternatives to better discern truth.
Physicist Wolfgang Pauli dismissed a muddled theory with this single, scathing line: "That is not only not right; it is not even wrong." It sounds pedantic, but Pauli's point is an important one. Some claims are wrong not because they contradict evidence, but because they can't be tested at all. And that distinction is just as relevant when debating on social media today as it was when applied in the field of 20th-century physics.