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Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration

The Theory of Anything

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The Importance of Theory in Poppers Epistemology

In poppers epistemology it is better to be wrong than untestable this is something that gets missed a lot. What we really care about in science isn't if a theory is true per se but if it's truer than all known competitors. We expect true or true were theories about reality to actually say something about reality if they don't, then we're not that interested in them at least scientific theories. David Crenshaw and Andrew Popper tell me that both QM and Einstein are wrong, we don't know exactly how they are wrong. So it makes sense that we take more seriously the implications of a theory which hasn't so well tested but less seriously those who

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