The Popperian Podcast #15 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – ‘Defending Baconian Induction’
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Is There a Very Similitude in Baconian Theories?
very similitude is introduced in chapter ten of paupar's conjectures and refutation. It proposes that it is possible for two false theories to be such that one gets at more about the world itself than another false theory. So you take two false theories, like kepler and newton, and you say, well, kepler e hypothesis, newton had hypothesis. And it turns out they were both mistaken. All right, then why did we prefer newton over kepler? And why do we today? We refer to newton in a more er, as more dependable as a description of reality,. When we do kepler, and you might say, invented the
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