Knowledge Discovery is Hard Belief
(Redirected from Knowledge Acquisition is a Complex Task)
A Knowledge Discovery is Hard Belief is a justified belief that knowledge discovery is a difficult task.
- Example(s):
- Scientific Knowledge Discovery is very hard and requires the scientific process.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Scientific Learning, Peer Review Process, Scientific Experiment.
References
2013
- (Pinker, 2013-08-06) ⇒ Steven Pinker. (2013-08-06). “Science Is Not Your Enemy: An impassioned plea to neglected novelists, embattled professors, and tenure-less historians." In: New Republic, 2013-08-06.
- QUOTE: … science is of a piece with philosophy, reason, and Enlightenment humanism. It is distinguished by an explicit commitment to two ideals … The second idea is that the acquisition of knowledge is hard. The world does not go out of its way to reveal its workings, and even if it did, our minds are prone to illusions, fallacies, and superstitions. Most of the traditional causes of belief — faith, revelation, dogma, authority, charisma, conventional wisdom, the invigorating glow of subjective certainty — are generators of error and should be dismissed as sources of knowledge. To understand the world, we must cultivate work-arounds for our cognitive limitations, including skepticism, open debate, formal precision, and empirical tests, often requiring feats of ingenuity. Any movement that calls itself “scientific” but fails to nurture opportunities for the falsification of its own beliefs (most obviously when it murders or imprisons the people who disagree with it) is not a scientific movement.
