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Author(s) -
Thomas Lewis
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
paediatric and perinatal epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.667
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1365-3016
pISSN - 0269-5022
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1995.tb00140.x
Subject(s) - medicine , realization (probability) , epistemology , artificial intelligence , statistics , computer science , mathematics , philosophy
Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before. In truth, whenever we discover a new fact it involves the elimination of old ones. We are always, as it turns out, fundamentally in error.