
Ep 131:Corroboration? Excerpts and Analysis of Popper’s ”Realism & The Aim of Science”.
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How to Grade Hypotheses According to the Tests Passed by Students
i propose to call the grade of a hypothesis or the degree to which it has stood up to tests its degree of corroboration rather than its probability end quote okay we can't speak to him now what a shame but i just would love to know what he had in mind. If you have that situation ever arise and as i keep on saying please write in email me tweet me whatever a situation where you really do have these actual different viable good explanations of the same phenomena you can't distinguish between them so you need corroboration. I doubt whether a numerical evaluation of this degree will ever be of practical significanceend quote quite right quite right. What point is there in postulating this his own example
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