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Episode 27: Chiara Marletto and Constructor Theory

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The Importance of Empiricism in Physics

I think it's true that so I guess physics has a huge bias towards empiricism and instrumentalism in various ways. But when you're really thinking about the foundations of theories, it's very important to understand that there is much more to an explanatory theory of reality than just what it's empirically accessible content. And this is also why there are so many misconceptions around there about quantum theory itself. It tried to somehow fit the quantum theory as it is in some mold that doesn't belong to it. That's how we end up thinking about all sorts of wrong views about, you know, measurements and stuff like that. So yeah, I think this is empirical and instrumentals have

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