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For Every Situation, there exist a single TRUTH
<p>For every given situation/problem there exists a single TRUTH. </p><p>The whole point of learning is to move closer to that truth. We usually begin with a conjecture (a guess) and then we examine and experiment with it until we can see whether it holds. The path to truth is really a process of willful error correction. A critical rationalist starts with a question, forms a conjecture, then puts it under scrutiny. The conjecture that comes closest to truth is the one that is hard to vary, the one that stays true across contexts, and once you realize it, you cannot unsee it no matter how much you try.</p><p>You cannot move toward truth if you carry rigid notions, dogmas, or ideologies. yet this is how most people think. they begin with a rigid belief and then try to make everything else fit within it. in doing so, they miss reality itself. Even the most educated professors can be wrong when their thinking is built on bad epistemology.</p><p>Critical rationalism is powerful because it asks you to start with nothing fixed. no beliefs, no dogmas, no ideology. You make a conjecture, you examine it carefully with the willingness to accept being initially wrong , so you never hold onto ideas too tightly. In this way, mistakes are highly welcomed, because mistakes point away from what is false and therefore closer to what is true.<br/></p><p>But this is extremely hard for most people, because we are evolutionary wired to believe. to think clearly without rigid priors takes practice, and it can be trained. If you truly value truth, you will come to see uncertainty not as a weakness, but as an essential part of the journey.<br/></p><p>And truth applies everywhere. Not only in science, but in art, in personal development, in how you live your everyday life. To invent a drug, to lead, to overcome depression, to find your path or to make great art all involve some form of truth seeking. In this process you must welcome uncertainty and to allow mistakes to guide you is to let truth, rather than dogma, shape your path.<br/></p>
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