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Ep 179: Livestream March 14, 2023

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How to Extrapolate the Sun's Rise Every Day in the Past

There's no repeated observations here. It just never happens Einstein was interested in problems to do with electro dynamics Also having a soul comes about the the way in which Mercury didn't quite fit its orbit as it went around the Sun as predicted by Newton. The idea of induction is that You need to have some justification for This set of observations going on off into the infinite future extrapolating But you can only extrapolate I'm saying this on Twitter todayyou can only extrapolated if you already have a theory If you see something like The Sun has risen every day in the past Then you need a theory that extrapolating and saying it will rise again tomorrow Can only legitimately be made Legitimately

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