Ep 132: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”. Part 2
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Isn't It a Wonderful Idea?
In science we do not consider the discoverer of a theory to have any special insight into it. They in variably, become obsolete as the problem situations that prompted them are transformed by the discoveries themselves. For example, most relativity theorists to day understand ironstein's theory better than he did. The founders of quantem theory made a complete mess of understanding their own ry. Such shaky beginnings are to be expected, and when we stand upon the shoulders of giants, it may not be all that hard to see further than they did. It is more interesting to argue about what the truth is than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.
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