2021, week 52
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Monday, 2021-12-27 to Sunday, 2022-01-02
David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation
- all observations are theory laden
- seek good explanations – explanations that are hard to vary
- The search for hard-to-vary explanations is the origin of all progress
- Two false approaches blight science: (“opinions are caused by
wizards”)
- Untestable theories
- explanationless theories
- That the truth consists of hard-to-vary assertions about reality is the most important fact about the physical world. this fact is unseen, but impossible to vary.