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Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration

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The Language of Strength and Weakness

Theory of Bayesianism is not just about refuting or corroborating it's about evolution in a way. We discovered that A and C survived testing while B D and E didn't. So likewise if someone discovered a theory F that was previously not known, we might say theory A and C just got weaker. But here the language of strength and weakness refers to the status of the known competitors rather than to the amount of empirical content.

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