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Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration

The Theory of Anything

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The Absolute Verification Fallacy

Online critical rationalists often fall into what I call the absolute verification fallacy here. Since one can never be certain, verification is impossible, but refutation is possible. Popper makes this extensively clear in his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery. He tries to go as hard as he can against his own theory.

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