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Ep 63: "The Fabric of Reality" episode 1

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The Importance of Predicting Experiments

Gravitation and cosmology page 147 end quote. Weinberg and the other instrumentalist mistake and what we ascribe the images on astronomers photographic plates to does matter. For even in purely practical applications, the explanatory power of a theory is paramount and its predictive power only supplementary. If an extraterrestrial scientist has visited the earth and given us an ultra high technology oracle which can predict the outcome of any possible experiment but provides no explanations,. According to instrumentalists, once we had that oracle, we should have no further use for scientific theories except as a means of entertaining ourselves.

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