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Ep 87: David Deutsch‘s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 3 “Problem Solving” Part 1

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Inductionism Is Not Based on Observational Evidence, It Is a Theory of the Growth of Knowledge

inductivism is based on the common sense theory of the growth of knowledge that we learn from experience and historically it was associated with deliberation of science from dogma and tyranny. What we need is an explanation-centered theory of knowledge, a theory of how explanations come into being and how they are justified. We should allow our perceptions to change our worldview once we have no separate theory of predictions for some observable phenomenon. Fabrega Vdi can indeed be regarded as a theory of explanations in this sense  in relation to problem-solving process which he calls Wittgenstein's ladder.

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