In this premier podcast Episode I (recorded in late 2019 and released in April 2020) discuss the terms we used to talk about information.

What is the truth?

What is “proof”?

How is “truth” different from “facts”, or “evidence”?

How do we know if we really know what we think we know?

During my scientific training, I learned that we rarely “prove” anything. Science generates evidence and then we decide whether that evidence is “enough” to make something true or “a fact”.

Sound complicated? It is.

Realize also that the dictionary is not a book of what words mean. Dictionaries are books of what we THINK words mean. We, as a culture or society, decide what those words mean. And those meanings can CHANGE.

Same with “facts”. They can change.

The “truth” however, can never change. Which is why it remains out of our reach. Sure, we can get close, but we can hardly “know” the “truth”.

What does it mean to “know” something, anyway?

There are things we know, and there are things we CAN know: the “knowable”.

There’s also the “unknowable”.

Few people, often scientists, don’t “believe” in the “unknowable”.

That’s fine. It doesn’t mean there isn’t an “unknowable”.

I hope you enjoy the podcast or YouTube. It’s the same material, just a matter of how you like to get your “information”. Opinion? You decide.

You can find the “Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom” podcast on most podcast host apps. Or stream it here:

link to audio episode:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/530563/3300952

link to video episode: