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Evidence and knowledge are often used almost interchangeably in common language. To say that one has something on ‘good evidence’ to most people means to know something or at least to be pretty sure about the facts. ‘Knowledge’ in a philosophical context however deals more with the questions “What is knowledge?” and “How do we acquire knowledge?” The last question is the one which is most closely associated with the overarching question of EBM about how we can acquire evidence, and what makes the acquired evidence, “good” evidence? In the medical context it seems to be ambitious to claim to have knowledge, let alone absolute knowledge, since medical facts are changing at a rapid pace.
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Schulte, MC. (2020). Knowledge does not equal evidence — what to do with what we have evidence for?. In: Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged?. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05703-7_4
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