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Episode 44: Clarifying David Deutsch's Views of "Knowledge"

The Theory of Anything

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Is David Deutsch's Burns Theory a Good Idea?

I grew up in an environment where evolution was wrong. As I started to read about it on my own, whatever I was taught in class never was sufficient to convince me of anything. Now this makes perfect sense now that I understand Popper's epistemology. But knowing the theory is insufficient to convince people that think it's wrong, that it's right. That is not does not work in a plain and simple way. This is why the preparation, the preparing concept of corroboration is such an important concept. Every time a theory comes out positive, that does in some sense strengthen the theory. The second one doesn't convince you of anything. By the 100th one, there isn

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