Episode 41: The Problems of Refutation & Popper Without Refutation (part 1)
The Theory of Anything
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Do You Really Need the Word Refutation?
Danny frederick is a well known, famous pauper scholar. He uses the word refutation to mean a single observation that calls a problem for a theory. David doych refers to the the moment where you have the rival theory and it explains the problem. You can now tendeytentatively reject the previous theories. That's what danny calls rejection. O, so this led to an interesting idea, which is the whole idea of pauper without refutation. We can actually sayat we can call the first first event a problemn. We can cal the second event rejection, and we can get rid of the word refutations altogether. Why would i want
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