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Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration

The Theory of Anything

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The Importance of Corroboration

After recording this episode, I felt like there were some things that I hadn't covered that I wanted to include. One of them is an argument from David Miller about how he handles corroboration and how I agree with him and in some senses, disagree with him. The answer is that corroborations doesn't matter, even in the practical realm. It has no epistemological significance at all, as Popper always insisted,. But testing matters and has undeniable methodological significance. We want true theories.

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