Meta-Knowledge(6.CertaintyAndFuzziness)
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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
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