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Meta-Knowledge(6.CertaintyAndFuzziness)

(2023-10-21 21:00:16)
分类: 医学通论.有效性就是科学性
Meta-Knowledge
( 6. Certainty And Fuzziness )



That gang of pseudo scholars who always want to
persecute our TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) 
also has a common trick, which is to flaunt the 
certainty or accuracy of their knowledge.

Namely, those guys always think they can accurately
diagnose diseases, while the doctors of TCM only 
blur judgments and jokingly refers to it as the 
"Uncertainty Principle of TCM  

    
In fact, this is excessive paranoia .

Objectively speaking,  when diagnosing diseases, 
some diagnoses of TCM are indeed vague and
incomprehensible. 

However, it is good enought if a prescription can 
be issued and effective treatment can be provided 
to the patient.


Similarly, experienced melon farmers can tell 
whether a watermelon is ripe or sweet by patting 
the watermelon, so, there is no need to cut it 
into pieces, which may result in wastage.

Although the doctors of western medicine always 
like  analysing many tiny pieces, they may not 
necessarily get a correct judgment.


As we know, some doctors are also helpless 
towards certain diseases, and their common 
methods are:

Inspection relies mainly on instruments, 
while diagnosis relies mainly on guessing. 

We cannot use this as a reason to say that the 
doctors' professional level is not high

Because both the human body and the pathogenic 
factors are extremely so complex that may lead 
to fuzzy discrimination.

And both TCM and Western medicine maybe meet
this kind of embarrassment. 


In 2022, I wrote  an article titled
 "
The Eighth Law of 
Medical Science
" on this 
topic, which discussed the issues of certainty 
and fuzziness, so I will not repeat it. 


Regarding the relationship between the certainty 
and fuzziness of knowledge, we should still have 
the following understanding: 

1. Due to the complexity or rapid changes of 
certain systems and unpredictable patterns, 
cognitive ambiguity is inevitable.

For example, understanding of human body 
and its diseases. 


2. Due to the uncertainty of conditions or 
frequent external interference, cognitive 
ambiguity is inevitable. 


3. Perhaps knowledge itself has great stability, 
but as a specific individual, there are biases 
in his understanding of knowledge, which 
inevitably leads to cognitive ambiguity.

For example, the knowledge of our TCM is a 
relatively mature and complete knowledge 
system, but unfortunately, many persons do 
not have enough efforts or intelligence at 
all, so that those persons always wander or 
stand outside of our TCM , resulting in a 
vague understanding of our TCM .


4、 The certainty and fuzziness of knowledge 
are also dynamically changing.

Our understanding of a thing may be vague at 
the beginning, and may become even more vague 
for a period of time afterwards. 

However, as long as we have the correct methods 
and rational thinking, our understanding of 
this thing will become less ambiguous and 
more deterministic.


5. In fact, it is difficult for us to completely 
eliminate the ambiguity of our understanding 
of almost anything, unless the thing is extremely
simple and its association with the outside world 
is also extremely simple.


So, it is extremely irrational to ignore the 
relationship between certainty and fuzziness of 
knowledge, to use some fuzziness of TCM to 
ruin our TCM !


------ Written On July 14, 2023

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