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Identifying the wrong is the first step to become the right

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 The Smart Perspective | Waqar Ahmed   Image depicting a person in search of the truth. Let's begin: Look at the picture below and keep your focus on it for a bit moment. You see two boxes filled with two distinct colors. Isn’t it? The two boxes represent two different things: one is wrong and the other is right. Consider these two boxes representing a simple scientific fact. Only one fact could be right. In some cases, one fact is the absolute reality, while the other provides half-correct information. But in this case, we are assuming that only one fact could be correct, which leads us to the conclusion that the other fact is wrong. The real question is how do you know, which fact is wrong? In the boxes, you could see clearly, that one box mentions ‘wrong’ and the other ‘right’. You can easily identify for yourself the box you would want to opt for. But real life is complex. It doesn’t come in the boxes where you have to select any one of them. No, it’s way difficult...

Why it's difficult to know what we don't know

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 Waqar Ahmed | The Smart Perspective Based on the Philosophical Theory of David Deutsch about the Knowledge! One of the easiest things to do in this world is to simply fake things that you know nothing about.  It would set you free from going back into the sources to confirm that what you said was right or wrong.  There is a huge difference between understanding and pretending to be knowledgeable about something.  The former is the real hard work and its drains your mental energy and the latter is just a blush. Society these days is forced into arbitrary issues that need very simple and logical solutions yet they seem to never go away.  Why is that? It is because micro-level issues are not that important to worry about in a common human perspective.  As a result, these little issues compound in years to create big problems which become a serious headache to the progress. All issues have one single root that connects them, and it also provides us the opportu...