Ep 132: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”. Part 2
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Is There an Infinite Number of Theories?
i'm glad i listened carefully, as you asked. For now i see that at least part of the difference between us has been caused by a misunderstanding over terminology. When papa speaks of rival theories to a given theory, he does not mean the set of all logically possible rivals. He means only the actual rivals, those proposed in the course of a rational controversy. And this is just talking. It would be impossible, to enumerate all the logically possible theories. There wouldn't be a set. Who would be some wed class of things? If we take the world view of the beginning of infinity seriously, then we must presume there uner an infinite number of theories better than our best
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