Episode 41: The Problems of Refutation & Popper Without Refutation (part 1)
The Theory of Anything
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The Best Explanation Is That This Person Is the Father
In the absence of a good rival explanation, an explanatory theory cannot be refuted by experiment. And i think that explains why nobody perceived newton being refuted by these anomylous observations. It's precisely because of the doom quin thesis. The problem may exist in any parnt of the background knowledge and there's no way ut front with an observation alone to know which part side was there toti a question or anything. Ahunch a wish, or anything. Na ao. So deve doych is agreeng with coone. He's agreeing with coon that you absolutely cannot refute a theory based on an observation alone. At most it can be made problematic.
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