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I was pleased to note that you mentioned our famous NZ philosopher in another forum. A very great man.
Hope you don't mind if I quote from "Knowledge and the Shaping of Reality: The Search for a Better World" (which I think may have been his last lecture; Alpbach Forum 1984).
"The main points concerning scientific knowledge are the following:
1. It starts from problems, both from theoretical and from practical problems. ...
2. Knowledge is the search for truth - the search for objectively true explanatory theories.
3. It is not the search for certainty. To err is human; all human knowledge is fallible and hence uncertain. It follows from this that we must make a sharp distinction between truth and uncertainty. Because it is human to err, we must fight against our errors, and search for them again and again; for even with the greatest care, we can never be quite sure that some of our errors have not eluded us."
Which I'm sure you already knew, but which I for one find it helpful to be reminded of.
Kia ora
the Gripper
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