Right vs Wrong Ideas
- Its impossible to know if our ideas are truly correct until they are proven to be incorrect. Especially in the cases where our ideas are based on past experiences and knowledge.
- This is related to the ideas represented by David Hume where “No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion."
- This just goes to show that we can never be certain about our ideas/ theories and must always be openminded.
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"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane" -Marcus Aurelius
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