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Episode 58: Deutsch's "Creative Blocks": A Decade Later

The Theory of Anything

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The Importance of Critical Rationalism

"There is a distinction to be made between wrong and incomplete," he says. "We're actually in a unique point in history where we used to think our theories were true, and we sort of don't believe that anymore,. We think they're the truest." He argues it doesn't really matter if our theories are entirely right or not, what matters is that we don't have a good alternative theory.

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