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Episode 55: Why are Empirical Theories Special? (IQ part 3)

The Theory of Anything

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The Disadvantages of Empirical Theories

"It's difficult to turn a philosophical theory into an empirical theory theory with, for example, without first dealing with things like this theory doesn't even solve the right problem," he says. "I asked them, for examples, I knew it was difficult. So I said, can you give me real life examples of empirical theories that have a non empirical competitor in the scientific realm?" He continues: "One of them came up with one example and the rest could not code any examples."

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