“Incidentally, we would not want to be understood as claiming that there is a great deal of “absolute” knowledge available to men. Self-evident propositions, in the sense in which we defined them in the previous chapter, seem to us to be both indemonstrable and undeniable truths. **Most knowledge, however, lacks that degree of absoluteness. What we know, we know subject to correction**; we know it because all, or at least the weight, of the evidence supports it, but we are not and cannot be certain that new evidence will not sometime invalidate what we now believe is true.” ([Location 2211](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004PYDAPE&location=2211)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[knowledge-management]], [[analytical-reading]], [[reading-books]] **Source** -- [[20250103084100 - B - How to Read a Book]]