A very interesting Salon article on the possibility that knowledge (or the feeling of knowing) is biologically based rather than the result of thinking. So should we always say “I believe” rather than “I know”? This one will get the epistemologists and everyone else up in arms. The writer is Robert Burton, author of On Being Certain.

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