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

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Evolutionary Success Depends on the Creation and Survival of Objective Knowledge

David Wheeler: Inductivism is a dangerous and recurring source of many sorts of error. He says it supposes that theories are somehow extracted from observations or justified by them. But in reality, science is problem and explanation based, he writes. When we think that we have solved a problem, we naturally adopt our new set of theories - but they're not always the right ones. We must try to find explanations that are as broad and deep and as true and specific as possible," argues Wheeler.

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