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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes
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What Is the Purpose of Science?
Wickenstein thought most of philosophy reduced to puzzles, and it was all just about language that people were using. Reducing every single problem to nothing but a puzzle in language is quite a dangerous route to go down. It breeds a form of relativism, which we inherit to day in certain kinds of wokism. My key idea from this chapter is that instrumentalism is the that the purpose of science is to predict the outcome of experiments. This constitutes a kind of bad philosophers who actively prevents the growth of knowledge by denying reality or truth.
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