The Popperian Podcast #15 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – ‘Defending Baconian Induction’
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Is Bacon Searching for Bedrock?
In some ways bakon am isn't searching for a bedrock. He thinks that aristotle makes a mistake by looking for it. That's hisa complaint about all series of looking for bedrock is that we don't have a language in which to describe it. So our language also is to change wit this, because the old language will be inadequate to describe the reality that youare just discovering. Your language will be one of those mirrors, distorting mirrors, which you have to correct as you go along. It's surprising how close this is to 20 century concerns of our theary ladens of language and so on. There's nothing tis is just like the beginnings. There's
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