
Ep 131:Corroboration? Excerpts and Analysis of Popper’s ”Realism & The Aim of Science”.
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The Theory of Gravity and Its Corroboration
Popper almost admits in his very chapter that he's making a mistake I'll just read he says quote and this is coming from page number 228 of realism in the aim of science. He feels like he needed to have some replacement for this whole idea of things being more probable a particular theory being more probable but he knows that that's a mistake he know that that's wrong he knows that he's not trying to find the most probable theory. Popper wants to avoid the term probability he understands that his own epistemology entails that you can't say things like this hypothesis is probably true or even aiming for something to be probably true or certainly true or anything like that.
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