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Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration

The Theory of Anything

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The Problem With Corroboration

David Deutsch: Popperians need the word corroboration, but anyone who wants to use it, I don't mind. He says debate over what some string of characters arbitrarily designates solves no problems. That whole way of thinking is a chimera in Popperian critical rationalist actual philosophy of scientific terms. But he's not here, so we can't ask him.

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