Reason Not The Only Source of Knowledge
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Criticism is a form of knowledge. How does reason have access to criticism if reason is not the source of knowledge?
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Fire purifies gold, but it isn't gold itself. Reason doesn't need to be the source of knowledge to criticize other sources. The main source of knowledge is myth and things that don't make sense. All of our scientific theories are testable, hard to vary myths. As Popper states in Conjecture and Refutations (171), "[w]e shall understand that, in a certain sense, science is myth-making just as religion is."