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The fact that *ignorance grows in tandem with new knowledge* is the reason why we are, at the individual level, equal unknowers. People do have more or less knowledge or intelligence than other people, but __often it is this very strength, one’s superior knowledge, that can be the main hindrance to perceiving one’s own ignorance.__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
While economics sees itself as a ‘taxis’, a ‘deliberate arrangement’, catallaxy is presented as a ‘cosmos’, a world. While the first is a ‘teleocracy’, a unit oriented by a hierarchy of ends set by a central agent, the second is a ‘nomocracy’,12 an order where everyone pursues his own ends, following the rules of a universal game.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
His method of twin studies was proposed to distinguish between ‘nature and nurture’ – another enduring phrase Galton coined – that could be used to help see to what extent ability, character, or disposition was heritable.8 This, along with seminal work on the regression of the height of sweet peas over different generations,9 allowed Galton to found the field of behavioural genetics and to suggest that a species could ‘regress’ if not properly controlled.
Empire of Normality
Robert Chapman
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