We’re fundamentally incapable of making statements about reality without starting on some sort of arbitrary foundation.
This is something Popper disputes. He says you can start in the middle, or anywhere. Why can’t that be done?
And I think describing it as “selectively ignoring” is doing it an injustice. We’re deductively excluding
I was talking about the theories that can’t be deductively excluded b/c they make identical predictions for all available evidence.
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This is something Popper disputes. He says you can start in the middle, or anywhere. Why can’t that be done?
I was talking about the theories that can’t be deductively excluded b/c they make identical predictions for all available evidence.