The Popperian Podcast #14 – Anthony O'Hear – ‘Whiffs of Induction’
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Is Inductivism a Successful Policy?
In his new book, Pope Francis argues that a successful scientific theory must be inductive. He says we can only act on past inferences - and this is all the time in objective knowledge. The first chapter of objective knowledge is an attempt to say why am it's reasonable to act on well tested theories? 'I think that's am, a kind of induction,' he writes.
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