A great deal of energy is spent evaluating evidence in critical thinking  classes.
The evidence we possess has special salience in our thinking because it is visible, right in front of us. Nassim Taleb, however, reminds us that some of the most important evidence is the evidence we do not have because it is not only [...]

 
In The King and I, the king sings:
When I was a boy
World was better spot.
What was so was so,
What was not was not.
Now I am a man;
World have changed a lot.
Some things nearly so,
Others nearly not.
As a student, I have studied to procure,
In my head are many facts.
Of which I wish I was more certain [...]