tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post2730777577498710013..comments2023-11-02T11:32:38.324+00:00Comments on The Joy of Curmudgeonry: A Little ReminderDeogolwulfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-21165178561959728912010-08-31T21:05:47.038+01:002010-08-31T21:05:47.038+01:00"Is that addressed to me? In any case, it is ..."Is that addressed to me? In any case, it is difficult to see why you would ask such a strange question."<br /><br />Like Chesterton, you are quite happy to pretend to be stupid in order to avoid answering the question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-32023597208880685162009-08-26T18:45:56.175+01:002009-08-26T18:45:56.175+01:00"Do you seriously believe that we are becomin..."Do you seriously believe that we are becoming more ignorant about the workings of the human brain, or the genetic basis of disease?"<br /><br />Is that addressed to me? In any case, it is difficult to see why you would ask such a strange question.Deogolwulfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-58505686944761011102009-08-26T10:48:53.303+01:002009-08-26T10:48:53.303+01:00xlbrl
some things must be believed to be seen - l...xlbrl<br /><br />some things must be believed to be seen - like UFOs?<br /><br />Do you seriously believe that we are becoming more ignorant about the workings of the human brain, or the genetic basis of disease?georgesdelatourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548858896924613970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-35932840399867233162009-08-25T13:22:30.499+01:002009-08-25T13:22:30.499+01:00Xlbrl, I think the intellectual perversity of mode...Xlbrl, I think the intellectual perversity of modernism has a ready answer: if we steadily reduce the range of rational enquiry, and make the mind ever narrower so as to ask fewer questions of greater knowledge, then the illusion can be created that the range of our ignorance is diminishing.Deogolwulfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-52856664776356478472009-08-25T05:24:33.173+01:002009-08-25T05:24:33.173+01:00When Chesterton was finished explaining that some ...When Chesterton was finished explaining that some things must be believed to be seen, he would inform Heather Mac that it is not that she does not know the answer, but that she does not know the question. <br /><br />F A Hayek--<br />Since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science. Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientist, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing.xlbrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01931950075332608449noreply@blogger.com