Mind, Reason, Calibration

“Kant, in the Critique of Pure Reason, asserted—under the influence of Hume—that pure speculation, or reason, whenever it ventures into a field where it cannot be checked by experience, inevitably falls into contradictions, or “antinomies,” and produces what Kant unambiguously called “conceit,” “nonsense,” “illusions,” “dogmatic ballast,” and “pretended knowledge.” – from K.Popper’s book “The Open Society and Its Enemies”

It’s fine to say, “I don’t know,” or “I don’t have enough data to say for sure.”. Because when the mind is well calibrated and honest (focused on truth despite the body’s impulses), it becomes a real asset in navigating murky areas like pure speculative reasoning or deep intellectual exploration.