
Ep 129: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”.
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Why the Floater Jumps Off the Ifel Tower
Most contemporary philosophers are crypto inductivists. Like many scientists, they grossly underrate the role of explanation in the scientific process. This opens up a new explanatory gap in their scheme of things. The philosopher john warrell has dramatized problem as he sees it in an imaginary dialogue between popper and several other philosophers. We're after a situation in which we literally do have no rivals. It's prediction without explanation. Explanationless science.
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