Ep 132: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”. Part 2
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Is There a Reason Why You Can't Understand Physics?
i am fixated on david doch's wold view, which talks so much about explanations. If you don't understand something, that's a problem. But it might not be you that's the problem. They could just be not understanding the phenomena themselves and giving you a non explanation or being evasive. Well, what you don't want in physics, for example, is an instrumentalist - yet they are a diamo dozen. Let's just figure out how to do the calculations. There you go. You're a physicist. The best you can do is to predict the outcome of experiments. And this is all wrong. In fact, you may have even been told you can
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