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Ep 129: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”.

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What Is Conjectural Knowledge?

All knowledge is conjectural, and so we say it's being guessed. But every single claim that you can make is a guess as well. The conjecture that the curvature of space time is what is the explanation of y and gives the illusion of a force of gravity has survived many, many tests. And there is nothing else superior to it. Other rivals have been refuted. It's the only one left standing currently. All experimental evidence is consistent with it. That doesn't prove it true, but it means it can do something that no other rival has been able to do. This word guess, i mean, maybe we'll be looking back the epistemology descendants in the papy

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