Ep 86: The Aim of Science
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The Explana Tion Consists of a Bunch of Unseen Things
Popper wrote, quote, in order that the explicans should not be ad hok, it must be rich in content. It must have a variety of testible consequences which are different from the explicandum. So yes, the parts of the explanation actually invoke the existence of things that previously were unseen or unobserved. Those things then form a part of the testible content of theexplana ation. And this is why empericism is false, a point which we have made here in this broadcast many times. The explanation consists of a bunch of unsene things. But we can test our explanation of those unsene things, because those unseene things give rise to the
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