
Ep 37: An intermittent introduction to Popper and Deutsch
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The Search for Good Explanations
i want to take some key discoveries of popa and explain them even further. A good explanation is an explanation that is hard to vary while still doing the job of accounting for what it purports to account for. In a good explanation, each part of the explanation has a function such that if one attempts to change that part, the entire structure could collapse into nonsense. While poper understood that we are not seeking provably true ideas, david douch has explained how, unless a law of physics stands in our way, nothing can stop us from a in anything we want to,. So we must create knowledge. And some of this knowledge not only solves a local, parochial problem,
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