The Space of Doubt

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One of the characteristics of science is its inherent ability to tolerate doubt. This may be partly explained by the metaphorical paradigm that science operates within, that conceives the quest for knowledge as the traversing of an imaginary epistemological 'space'. So even if the individual landmarks that science maps, the theories, models, etc, are subject to tentative acceptance, the landscape across which this poetic journey of exploration is taken can be treated as secure.

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Uploaded: July 25th, 2008 @ 4:58 am
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