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Seeking the truth in the ocean of knowledge
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... ?True? and ?false? seem to be such clear and simple terms, opposites and mutually exclusive. In reality, however, we may inhabit, in much or even most of our knowledge, the fuzzy area between the two. Discuss the difficulties of attempts to draw a clear line between those two. Seeking the truth in the ocean of knowledge Many existing scientific theories deny other from the past. Impressing is that many people, including scientists, strongly believed in those old, proved invalid. Although, we should be aware that the new theories can be also disproved in the future. Therefore we cannot really be sure whether a scientific theory is true or false. Imperfections of our knowledge are determined by many different factors, in this essay I will try to show some of them. In the essay I will focus on social sciences, that is the most controversial part of our knowledge, sometimes even considered by
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