
Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration
The Theory of Anything
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The Connection Between Progress and Finality in Euclidean Geometry
Euclidean geometry, as a field by itself, it's a good theory that will never change. The axioms will always stay the same and you can continue to study it forever. Another example might be computational theory. It could well be that the core of computational theory would in fact turn out to be the final computational machine. So progress and finality don't seem to actually be connected. Or at least I'm giving you examples of how they aren't.
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