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#54 - Critical Rationalism 2.0, with Lucas Smalldon

Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren

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The Importance of Adapted Information in Critical Rationalism

When we talk about information there's perceived pre-varycation between semantic and syntactic information for two different things. I think that the, okay when we discuss knowledge in critical rationalism we're not talking about information that satisfies a criterion of correspondence theoretic truth. If we can't access absolute truth then we can't judge whether or not our theories correspond to it. So attempting to specify a mechanism of how correspondence works I think is a distraction that isn't necessary.

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