The Popperian Podcast #15 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – ‘Defending Baconian Induction’
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Newton's Theorem, and the Problems of the Penlican Debate
After newton that people start saying, oh, wonderful. T now we have a method which can find out about the world. And he explains all of them, so that his theory becomes really quite powerful. In first case in optics, where he shows the paradoxical thing that white light is a mixture of colors. He had ite one or two bits of it. A lot of it is known. Other people have discovered paradoxes, but they have not paid attention to them. The difficulties that he resolves come back if you take any other hypothesis. If you choose a new hypothesis to try and explain one set of phenomena, another set of phenomena come in bite. It's only when
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