Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

-Rene DesCartes ~1640 AD

It's been said that a fool knows everything while wise man knows that he knows nothing.  We all tend to believe what we think, and to think that what we believe is true and valid. If we believe this too staunchly we make 'improvement', otherwise known as learning, impossible.

Only by doubting, with discernment, can we hope to learn, improve, change, or alter the way we do things, or the way things are done to us.

DesCartes had a near monopoly on doubt. This made him one of the world's most profound philosophers. He was also a mathematician, (invented topology before the word existed as well as the Cartesian coordinate system [x and y axes]), the precursor to the modern scientific method (along with Francis Bacon), and perhaps the sole origin of the separate concepts of the mind and the body as separate entities.

Some of his ideas are not valid today, but his methods can hardly be questioned. Even his analysis of heart function, seemingly silly and strange, could not have been rationally discounted at the time of its inception. And we know today that the mind and body are tied in ways he simply could not have measured.

But the substantial body of his work is evidence of his commitment to avoiding silliness or assumptions as he toiled to move forward in understanding the world around him.

This blog will be a testament to doubt. A platform of reason, logic, science, some math, all with the aim to improve almost everything in life.

I hope you enjoy what you find, and when you don't, I hope you share your thoughts.

-Terry