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Episode 58: Deutsch's "Creative Blocks": A Decade Later

The Theory of Anything

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The Connection Between Induction and Critical Rationalism

Karl Popper's theory of induction is so vague, that it's sometimes really unclear what people even mean by it. If all you mean by induction is that there is an element somewhere of the future and the past being the same, well, of course, science is based on finding universal theories. Universal theories, by definition, are the same in the past and in the future. It's a vacuous way of saying induction is true, right? There's something more going on than that,. The fact that we use statistics to test things. This is coming from Mayo now. I didn't know this, but like Einstein, when we did the Eddington expedition and they tried to

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