Ep 100: David Deutsch
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The Concept of Direct Observation Is Incompatible With Empiricism
It's very difficult to try and re imagine what people mean by directly observe. This whole concept of direct observation actually itself vanishes into a cloud of explanation. The contents of our own minds are quite a highly sophisticated kind of knowledge that we only know through an extensive chain of interpretations, some of which are notoriously unreliable. And i think people regard that as just one of those things you knowit is. It's the problem induction, or something like that. An this once one becomes at least somewhat familiar with the world view that you've presented in your books and with papa's world view, it's very difficult for us to understand them.
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