Ep 86: The Aim of Science
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Neuton's Theories Are Grand Conjectures
Pobari t: Theory is not a deduction from things known earlier or from things induced either, as induction would have it. It's creative. It is conjectured. And in a sense, this is kind of coming at that age old distinction between, is it discovered or is it invented? Dwell, the invention is the theory. The discovery is the encounter with reality.
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