A man of science
He calculates
He can't diverge
He doesn't have what it takes
The books they don't help him
For every anwser comes a question
A never-ending road
A never-ending venture
The uncertainties scare him
He has to make sure
He tries to gather knowledge
But it's all just a blur
Easy answers, for complex topics
Hastly inject a sloppy anwser
How can they not worry?
Their inprecision ? He hates it so purely
He hates it so purely
This has to stop
Learn to learn
These mindless bots
To miss a detail
Is to get it all wrong
Don't they understand ?
Don't they long ?
Long for knowledge
Long for the whole truth
To uncover the nature of nature
To have inexorable proof
The uncertainties devour him
He must make sure
He graspes knowledge
-But it's still just a blur-
He knows to know nothing
That he can't dispute
So many variables
He cannot compute
He'll learn, in time
He'll get to it slow
The truth that truthfully matters
The truth no one knows
To err is to be human
It's a fate unkind
We'll never know the truth
The curtain we'll never unwind
So to be only slightly confused
Is considered good
You have done well
Just as we thought you would
In this grand comos undiscovered
It's great to have a small peak
Behind the truth that is a curtain
Leave to us the rest of the burden
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- Comment from author about the poem: "Pretty self explanatory right?" "Well, perhaps not in its entirety ?" "The hoped for anwser, was another question in disguise" "What do I do ? How do I summize ? "Wait for me I'll have it soon. The holy grail, conclusive proof" "One day I will, reach into the realm of the gods" "I will be All-knowing, no matter the cost" -The man of science
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Comments2
(devoid of humility
all progression or dogmatic zeal
regresses
to a cyclical nullification, science
is just the latest, victim)
such a well crafted write, dear Poet
impassioned yet taking breath
to reason and argue with eloquence
thanks for sharing, a great read
I see you too have read much about the Münchhausen Trilemma and it's implications on epistemology 🙂 What's your opinion on it ? I personally love Karl poppers take on this
(please forgive my rambling below
I rarely get a chance to converse with people
who managed to keep an open mind
while curating their path to wisdom
if you find any of my feeble thoughts
as contradictory or upsetting in any way
I apologise in advance
thank you for gifting me this opportunity to ramble
and introducing me to the trilemma theory;
the beauty of epistemology
is in its capacity to inform, yet unravel
all the wisdom we inherit, lol
but what do i know)
I'm sorry to disappoint dear poet
my comments were made, ignorant
of the Trilemma theory
however after looking it up
I agree with your siding of Karl's take, as it is line
with my original thought on the necessity of humility
for example, as much as I love Carl Jung
I refute his archetype, generalisation's
and their resultant assumptions of absolutism
'pigeonholing' formula's or groupings
'to fit' and simplify, equations and problems
only insures our results, are even more skewed
since our foundation preface is unsure, from the outset
this is why, I have so much respect for what Bertrand Russell
tried to achieve with his set theory and trying
to lockdown the very basis for our understanding
of maths, trying to anchor the foundations of numbers
themselves
such, zeal for verifying the minutia of our assumed
knowledge, will only help strengthen
future calculation and assumption based on that knowledge
since every generation, questions
yet only to argue against and disprove or improve
on their previous generation's, knowledge
rarely will they try to question the foundations
of that knowledge
ergo, the importance of humility
we need to accept 1+1=2
while questioning, what is 1 to begin with?
then work our way back up
ever ready and open minded, enough
to accept knowledge, as something existing
in its 'current' form, like Karl suggests
never assuming, that knowledge
is in it's 'absolute' form...
bravo!
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