
Ep 131:Corroboration? Excerpts and Analysis of Popper’s ”Realism & The Aim of Science”.
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Is Maxwell's Theory of Light More Probable Than Fresno's?
i think rightly the whole language of probability to a large extent he highlights errors and it's very much worth reading i don't think that we need to worry about how many you know counting up how many successfully passed tests a particular hypothesis has managed to pass if this was the case then you know my mystery about why is it on this view of things being more probable the more tests they passed why is it all useless. I'm instead going to talk about corroboration is a false dichotomy both of these approaches unusually for popper can be rejected because of popper's own best solution which is what we're doing by ruling out all the other theories left with only one that doesn't need we so
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