The Popperian Podcast #15 – Jagdish Hattiangadi – ‘Defending Baconian Induction’
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Can We Ever Build a Baconian Natural History?
Bacon proposed a social organization of science. He suggested that whi should be built like solomon's house. You have 12 people doing this, 50 peopletat a hundred people doing the other. And so he would. The question is, is this ever really possible? Can we ever go through a natural history and come out at the other end with a solution which is unique? Igh. That's another way of asking the question. Yes, yes. In fact, during his lifetime, it's not toasany one followed him,. But in any case, bacon had grand ideas about organizing e philosophers together in a band. After he died, and after they goted gal
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