Ignorance, far from being a defect, is the foundation of all knowledge. The author invites us to accept obscurity as a starting point for learning, because recognizing what we don't know, with humility and awareness, enables thought to progress. Science is presented as a human adventure based on trial and error, guided by doubt, practice and criticism. The aim is not to defend blind error, but rather an assumed ignorance that becomes fertile ground for the emergence of true and lasting knowledge. In this way, all knowledge is born of doubt and a recognized inner emptiness, just as light only exists in contrast to darkness.
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