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Overturned findings do not make knowledge entirely uncertain; we are approaching the truth asymptotically

Drawn from what Samuel Arbesman said

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metascience Research about research: whether published findings hold up, and what makes a field more or less reliable.

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  1. Samuel Arbesman Complexity scientist and writer
    Of course, this doesn’t therefore mean that everything we know is going to be swept away and that our knowledge is forever entirely uncertain. We are asymptotically approaching the truth.

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