
Ep 132: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”. Part 2
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The Crypto Inductivist - Part One
Poper: Inductivism said that there is an inductive form of reasoning which can derive and justify the use of general theories about the future. Poper's critique, though influential among scientists, especially in conjunction with his other work elucidating the methodology of science, was hardly original. The unsoundness of inductivism had been known almost since it was invented,. And certainly since david hume's critique of it in the early eighteenth century.
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