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The Island of Knowledge, The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

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The Island of Knowledge, The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Island of Knowledge

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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879945859

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The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Summary

Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of allHow much can we know about the world? In this book, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, like religion, is fundamentally limited as a tool for understanding the world. As science and its philosophical interpretations advance, we face the unsettling recognition of how much we don't know. Gleiser shows that by aband

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