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The Half-Life of Facts

Samuel Arbesman's 2012 book arguing that facts have 'half-lives' — that the knowledge in any given field is systematically revised and overturned at measurable rates — and that this predictable obsolescence of knowledge has profound implications for how we should hold beliefs.

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