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Aug 25, 2019

Why a theory’s predictive power is not as crucial as you might think.

I used to think that what mattered most about a theory was its predictive power. I used to think that the reason that Einstein’s theory was superior to Newton’s was that it could predict everything Newton’s could plus more things. I was mistaken. The reason why Einstein’s theory is better…

Science

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Science

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Aug 16, 2019

On the So-called Sources of Knowledge

An excerpt from In Search For A Better World By Karl Popper. Plus some clarifications from last post. Excerpt (bold emphasis mine), There are no ultimate sources of knowledge. Every source, every suggestion, is welcome; but every source, every suggestion, is also open to critical examination. …

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Aug 12, 2019

A Practice in Refutation

Error Corrections from last Post: I wrote, We seek out criticisms to our guess and look for methods to falsify it. If we falsify the guess then we guess something different and repeat. If we fail to falsify the guess, we accept it but only tentatively. Correction by Elliot Temple, In CR, the term “falsify”…

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Jul 30, 2019

How Does Knowledge Grow?

I would guess that most people would subscribe to the following method of how knowledge works. -First, we observe a pattern -> Then we generate a hypothesis based on said pattern > Test it > Accept it or Reject it. Incidentally, Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tweeted recently something quite akin to…

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Jul 29, 2019

Critical Rationalism

I will be writing about Critical Rationalism. The goal of this little project will be to explain my understanding of CR in order to generate feedback and criticisms which will help me weed out errors and find areas where further review is necessary. CR, in essence, is the philosophy of…

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