No modern order has held society together on revisable beliefs alone: each anchored itself on one belief placed beyond revision, either a theory declared final or a value held without evidence.

Evidence 4 passages

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  Our current assumption that we do not know everything, and that even the knowledge we possess is tentative, extends to the shared myths that enable millions of strangers to cooperate effectively.

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  All modern attempts to stabilize the socio-political order have had no choice but to rely on either of two unscientific methods.

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  A. Take a scientific theory and, in opposition to common scientific practices, declare that it is a final and absolute truth.

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  B. Leave science out of it and live in accordance with a non-scientific absolute truth.

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