
(Ep 13) Book Club: The structure of scientific revolutions
Scott H Young Podcast
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Why New Theories Work Better Than Old Theories
Coons: Most new theories actually have scant empirical evidence in their favor. He says it's not simply the case that theories are overthrown because the new one is just better. Sometimes it works better on a certain subset of problems, but many other problems it doesn't have answers for yet.
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