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Ep 91: David Deutsch‘s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 3 “Problem Solving” Part 2

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The Role of Experimental Tests in Scientific Discovery

It is in this critical phase of scientific discovery, stage three, that experimental tests play the decisive and characteristic role. That role is to render some of the contending theories unsatisfactory by revealing that their explanations lead to false predictions. An incorrect prediction automatically renders the underlying explanation unsatisfactory; a correct prediction says nothing at all about the underlying explanation.

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