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Ep. 280: Imre Lakatos on Scientific Progress (Part One)

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All Theories Are Equally Improbable

Mark, you were referring to his baldly saying that no experience can prove a theory. Probablism just tries to fix that and say, well, it's just hat some theories are more probably true than s based on the evidence available to us. And i don't know that story, and that's not a story that lakotosh puts in here. It's too bad that we can't pause for that, eause it seems really interesting that all theories are equally improbable. I felt that was y stage in my even belief in god, kind of thing,. Like, well, you can't prove that there's no god, or that there is a god, but you

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