262 | Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Imperfect Epistemic Grounds for Choosing Scientific Theories
The kinds of questions about scientific theories are generally decided using three broad types of epistemic grounds: common sense, scientific evidence, and theoretical elegance. However, these grounds are imperfect and involve trade-offs among them, as common sense is imperfect, scientific evidence may not always be directly obtainable, and theoretical elegance is subjective and inconclusive.
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