"Once we accept that knowledge is tentative..." - Ray Peat

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“Once we accept that knowledge is tentative, and that we are probably going to improve our knowledge in important ways when we learn more about the world, we are less likely to reject new information that conflicts with our present ideas. The attitude of expectancy will allow us to apply insights gained at one level of generality to other levels. No particular kind of knowledge will have such authority that it will automatically exclude certain possibilities in another field of knowledge.” -Ray Peat
 

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Oh, this is a good one. To hold our views at a distance and be able to consider changes. Something to aim for.
 

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Birdie said:
Oh, this is a good one. To hold our views at a distance and be able to consider changes. Something to aim for.


Yes but sadly the majority of people are closed to new information which conflicts with what they have been indocrinated with. The MSM has a large part to play in this alongside other forms of propaganda such as taught at most Universities (especially Medical schools).
 
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And another one:

"As the true method of knowledge is experiment, the true faculty of knowing must be the faculty which experiences." - Ray Peat
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So for the naysayers. There is no way you can truly know if what we are saying is true, without personal experimentation. This is the true spirit of Ray Peat, embarking on an experiment and finding out for yourself.
 

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So for the naysayers. There is no way you can truly know if what we are saying is true, without personal experimentation. This is the true spirit of Ray Peat, embarking on an experiment and finding out for yourself.
Exactly. But if one approach doesn’t work for someone and they have given that approach a reasonable amount of time and effort then it’s important to continue experimenting with other approaches.
 
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Exactly. But if one approach doesn’t work for someone and they have given that approach a reasonable amount of time and effort then it’s important to continue experimenting with other approaches.
Or maybe the person did not do the approach right, or long enough, or has other environmental circumstances they are not able to overcome or they are just permanently broken. Some people are just bad at following directions and also perceiving. Others might have enough bad juju that nothing is going to work for them because they are under a curse. But for most people, the approach now being presented on this forum, will improve every single aspect of their life. I am seeing it happen all around me, I get countless PM's of people who's lives are improving and they are so grateful that I did what I did for this forum.
 

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“Once we accept that knowledge is tentative, and that we are probably going to improve our knowledge in important ways when we learn more about the world, we are less likely to reject new information that conflicts with our present ideas. The attitude of expectancy will allow us to apply insights gained at one level of generality to other levels. No particular kind of knowledge will have such authority that it will automatically exclude certain possibilities in another field of knowledge.” -Ray Peat
It's too bad we can't put this splendid advice in a pill and give it to chronic dogmatists to cure them of dogmatism and cult thinking or to those who suffer from occasional acute bouts of dogmatism and cult thinking.
 

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