Waves and particles are models. Maybe the best models we have, but still models. Wave-particle duality is another model. Again, maybe the best model we have, but still a model. Like all models they are useful and maybe not wrong in a way that can be proven within the limits of human understanding.
I lack the hubris to ignore the "limits of human understanding" condition of knowledge because Kant changed my life. Not necessarily for the better. Not necessarily for the worse. How would I know? 30 years and half a lifetime from philosophy school...that's what writing gets me. Γνῶθι σαυτόν, gnōthi sauton.
What's 30 years? The Greek is performative erudition with the low effort Google makes possible. A typical collage. But this time I actually read the cribbed wikipedia article and learned that the phrase isn't from Socrates via Plato. I've been misinformed for forty odd years. Ever since I got the tee-shirt with the Greek upon it.
Was the tee-shirt 1980 or 90? Doesn't matter. It's a fact that has no social impact to get wrong. It's a tiny world that would know what I am talking about and not a fact worth verifying. It was before philosophy school (there's an interesting-to-me fact about how my life unfolded)?
Here's a model:
- All facts are interesting-to-me facts.
- Some facts are also interesting-to-you facts.
- Statistically, interesting-to-you-facts don't exist?
- Interesting-to-you facts are entirely social.
- Interesting-to-you facts two sources
- Authority
- Peers
- Authoritative interesting-to-you facts exit in a hierarchy of facts, therefore they create a hierarchy of social relationships.
- Hierarchies are constructed from status not expertise.
- Sometimes expertise is the ordering of a social hierarchy.
- Statistically it doesn't happen.
- Oh shit I've constructed a hierarchy.
- Good luck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sages_of_Greece