Ep 132: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”. Part 2
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The Cryptoconductivis Is Not Just Superfluous, It Is Positively Bad
Unrefuted theories, which one can propose off the cuff, fall roughly into two categories. There are theories that postulate unobservable entities such as particles that do not interact with other matter. And there are theories like yours that predict unexplained, observable anomalies. They could be rejected for solving nothing and spoiling existing solutions. But unrefuted theories remove the ex natory power from existing theories by asserting that the predictions of those theories have exceptions,. but not explaining how the crypto inductovis works.
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