But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
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- Jun 7, 2016
- #Philosophy #NaturalScience
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there’s nothing left to learn,...
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Number of Pages: 262
ISBN: 0399184120
ISBN-13: 9780399184123
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Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle
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Jan 8, 2022
All the companies built. It’s too late to build new things. But What If You’re Wrong? is a reminder that we are so early, and that healthy skepticism of the dominant narrative is not only rational, it is one hundred percent guaranteed to be correct in the future. The book—which I truly cannot do justice illustrates how wrong we are about most cultural and scientific beliefs throughout history.