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Ep 71: David Deutsch explains "explanations" further. (A "question for David" 2)

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Is the Conjura a Good Explanation?

I thought that these were words that had an uncontroversial meaning. It didn't occur to me that most people would not have this meaning in mind, although many people did. And then I started thinking about things that are explanations and things that aren't explanation, and like the ancient myths and so on. Then I thought with the conjura, there are circumstances where the conjura did it. Is the explanation that the person wants? Yes. You can imagine a person who believes in magic and is slowly coming out of that state of mind. Like James Randy's family when he first exposed a fake psychic... He was horrified to find that most of the people in the audience didn't want to

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