Episode 3: The Popper-Deutsch Solution
The Theory of Anything
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What Makes a Good Scientific Explanation?
How bad or good an explanation is depends on how it engages with what it's trying to explain. The more it is constrained by the expacanda, the thing that we're trying to explain, and by other good explanations,. Good explanation is hard to vary. We should prefer theories that are explanations of the problem we're Trying to solve over ones that are not. If a theory doesn't actually explain the problem that we're tried to solve, obviously, it's a bad theory. In future podcasts, I will give you examples of where it challenges your sense of reality.
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