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Ep 132: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”. Part 2

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Corroboration Is Not Just the Confirmation of the Winning Theory

i was explaining why it's not sost ae that the reliability of a theory should depend on what false theories people have proposed in the past. Even inductivists speak of a theory being reliable or not given certain evidence. And i think for similar reasons, we don't need to worry about corroboration either. Corroboration is not just the confirmation of the winning theory. It requires the experimental refutation of theories. Confirming instances in themselves have no significance. There are an infinite number of theories that could be consistent with any set of observations. Exceedingly rare to have multiple theories of anything at all.

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