By his late-thirties it had become clear to Steve that Artemus Ward was right—sometimes it’s not what we know that can get us into trouble, it’s what we know that just isn’t so. With the black-and-white simplicity of young adulthood behind him, he set out on an intensive journey of inquiry that led to write a self-published, “back-of-the-room” book called Truth-Driven Thinking. Ironically, that book reflexively compelled Steve to even greater levels of epistemological self-examination, and he has subsequent more...