2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American scientist and complexity researcher whose The Half-Life of Facts applies quantitative methods to the decay of knowledge — measuring the rate at which facts in various fields are overturned.
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.