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I. HAYAKAWA BOOK PRIZE, INSTITUTE OF GENERAL SEMANTICS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHumans form beliefs easily—and a sense of certainty even more easily. This book examines how successful explanations in science, mathematics, philosophy, and religion can harden into claims about reality. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePure Agnosticism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e proposes a disciplined alternative: pursue knowledge with full rigor and adopt a provisional stance, or “lean,” while resisting the impulse to treat even our best models as final truths. It is an argument for clarity, restraint, and intellectual proportion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTraditions touching on epistemic restraint have been around for a long time in fragmented or domain-specific ways. 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