6. The rational principle of research coincides with aware­ness for the ina­dequacy of knowledge. Learn to doubt!

Learn to doubt!

Don't expect them to tell you they don't have full knowledge. Listen carefully when you are told about the exceptions.

Don't expect them to tell you that they didn't have 100% certainty or that they had 100% confidence in their partners and in what they had learned.

Don't expect them to tell you that they were a little scared or that they had a moment of haste and recklessness.

Don't wait for them to tell you that they have exaggerated to convince you.

Don't expect them to tell you that they were human and that people have mental defects, such as moments of recklessness, bias, selfishness, expectation, and emotional loads that divert logical thinking. People in modern society need more than ever to be able to distinguish truth from falsehood and reliable from unreliable information. People do not need to have more knowledge and information, but to learn to doubt and use simple rules of logic. The questions that arise from our thoughts are usually not evaluated as knowledge, but they are also valuable for knowledge. When some questions have no answer, even questions that seem funny, then these unanswered questions reveal inadequacy of our knowledge. Unanswered questions also easily reveal the nonsense of many thoughts that we value as if they were reliable knowledge. Especially when they reveal contra­dictions, selective remarks that do not explain the opposite remarks or refute our conclusions.

Imagination and generalization are inevitable in our language

One of the important moments of rational research for the purpose of research is the discovery that information abstraction and imagination have already begun by the time we express thoughts in our own language. Even when thoughts are formulated correctly and phenomena are correctly described, thoughts are abstract, concise and focused concepts. Not included all information about described or justified phenomena is in the thoughts. We readily notice this lack of knowledge and overlap of imagination when we try to think our own thoughts and express them more carefully. Things are always more than we estimate, they have more ways of connecting, changes occur that are not always visible and all are affected in their own narrow environment.