Knowledge is a continuous fabric...
Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs safe from ordinary standards of evaluation, can only corrupt this fabric, just as a contradiction can corrupt a system of logic, allowing falsehoods to proliferate through it.
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Source type: WebsiteSteven Pinker
"The Edge"http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/coyne09/coyne09_index.html#tnr-coyne
Viewed on February 9, 2009
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