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Uncertainty pervades our lives. Because our knowledge of the world is limited, our reasoning and our decisions are necessarily affected by uncertainty.
For centuries, both philosophy and science dealt with the problem of uncertainty. Philosophy has focused on the epistemological issue of investigating the limits of human knowledge. Science, on the other hand, has concentrated on modeling nature on the basis of available knowledge in order to make predictions.
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Piscopo, C. (2013). Introduction. In: The Metaphysical Nature of the Non-adequacy Claim. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 464. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35359-8_1
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