Debate on the Definition of Coercion

Bruce sympathetically critiques David Deutsch’s concept of “easy to varyness” as a way to judge our explanations.

Are our best theories about reality truly hard to vary? Bruce makes the case that Popper’s concept of “ad hocness” may be a strangely interwoven concept.

Along the way we get deeper into whether Popperian epistemology is best seen as an attitude or a methodology.