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Ep 106: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 4 “Criteria for Reality” Part 2

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The Best Explanation of a Killer

Theory of such a person's existence is not a logical consequence of the observed evidence, which incidentally would consist of a single observation. Nor does that theory have the form of an inductive generalization. For example, that you will observe the same thing again if you perform the same experiment, nor is the theory experimentally testable. Experiment could never prove the absence of a hidden prankster. Despite all that, the argument in favor of the theory could be overwhelmingly convincing,. If it were, the best explanation, pausing their reflection.

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