> [!summary] Progressive Summary # Structured Notes ## Definitions ## Chapter Summaries ### Chapter 1 - Wrongology There is something called the Pessimistic Meta-Induction from the History of Science, which says that since even the most seemingly bulletproof scientific theories of the past were eventually proved wrong, we must assume that today's theories will someday be proven wrong as well. (A good example would be the [[Triune brain theory]].) > Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honorable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. > Twelve hundred years before René Descartes penned his famous “I think, therefore I am,” the philosopher and theologian (and eventual saint) Augustine wrote “fallor ergo sum”: I err, therefore I am. ### Chapter 3 - Our Senses # Quotes