Ep 86: The Aim of Science
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The Explanatory Explanation Is More or Less Well Known to Be True
In popus terminology, the explicandom is lights in the sky. The explican of this is those lights are stars. Stars can then be seen as a new explicandum, another thing in need of explanation. And the expla licans of that is stars, a big spers of plasmar undergoing fusion. And the conjunction of these, in a sense, makes up the explanation. So by true, i think he really may ans real it exists. It's not entirely part of your imagination.
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