
Ep 129: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”.
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Inductivists Are the Same, but Not Problems for Paperians
Wellbasians are inductives. They seek predictions that they see that the purpose of science is about being able to make a prediction. But in life science what we're looking for is creative conjectures, grand explanations,. hard to come by accounts of the world. And it all looks very scientific when you speak to basian's but not problems for paperians who want good explanations and not merely predictions.
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