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This kind of case forces us to admit that even the best definitions may need refinement. Something deeper is going on beneath the surface of our ordinary use of the word “know.” It isn’t merely a matter of having a belief that turns out to
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“The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.”
― Knowledge and Decisions
― Knowledge and Decisions
“What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.”
― Knowledge and Decisions
― Knowledge and Decisions
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
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“What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.”
― Knowledge and Decisions
― Knowledge and Decisions
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
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