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Perfect knowledge is a chimera; imperfect knowledge our timeless condition. Still, there are vast differences in degree of imperfection, since we can build bridges, confident that they will not fall, and construct chemical plants, confident that they will produce the compounds intended; yet we are unable to design a program for the alleviation of poverty with any confidence that it will reach the goal we set.
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Murray, T.H. (1983). Partial Knowledge. In: Callahan, D., Jennings, B. (eds) Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis. The Hastings Center Series in Ethics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7015-4_13
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