Papian Epistemology Is Not About Creating Good Explanations

logic of scientific discovery at first his best guess was to say well rather than talk about how well how probable a particular theory is he's going to talk about the degree of confirmation. Now decades later in writing this book on on reflection he's realized whoa I shouldn't have been talking about degree of confirmation we can't confirm our theories or partly confirm our theories and all that kind of stuff. Papierian epistemology is about trying to create good explanations if you're lucky as I've said for about the 10th time in this episode aloneif you're lucky you might have competing explanations that's extremely rare but if you do then you come up with the experimental test that rules out all