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Jordan Ellenberg: How not to be wrong: the power of mathematical thinking (2014)

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, written by Jordan Ellenberg, is …

As the philosopher W. O. V. Quine put it, “To believe something is to believe that it is true; therefore a reasonable person believes each of his beliefs to be true; yet experience has taught him to expect that some of his beliefs, he knows not which, will turn out to be false. A reasonable person believes, in short, that each of his beliefs is true and that some of them are false.”

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