The Popperian Podcast #15 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – ‘Defending Baconian Induction’
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Observations and Experiments Give You Power Over Nature
In the second book of the organ new organa, i've tried to pu together in a simple form, which i'll explain to you. When you find errors and you are asked to note them down in the natural one of the things he asks is to write down the conditions under which these errors are made. Now if you call each distortion an effect and each condition a cause, then you have basically a causal analysis of the phenomenon you are studying. And whate bacon says about this, his power of nature is a ledge that it hove got the truth about reality. It may be twice as many distortions we haven't even begun to look at - but there will always be more than
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