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The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

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Problems are inevitable, and problems are solvable. That is the beginning and the end of the human condition.

David Deutsch

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A sweeping argument that all progress — moral, scientific, political, artistic — flows from the capacity to create explanatory knowledge. Human understanding is literally infinite in reach.

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A sweeping argument that all progress — moral, scientific, political, artistic — flows from a single source: the capacity to create explanatory knowledge. Deutsch argues that human understanding is literally infinite in reach, and that the Enlightenment was just the beginning.

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A sweeping argument that all progress — moral, scientific, political, artistic — flows from the capacity to create explanatory knowledge. Human understanding is literally infinite in reach.

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A sweeping argument that all progress — moral, scientific, political, artistic — flows from a single source: the capacity to create explanatory knowledge. Deutsch argues that human understanding is literally infinite in reach, and that the Enlightenment was just the beginning.

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