But that problem is not universal through out the entire field, there are certainly schools of philosophers that do have agreed upon formal methods by which to decide what hypothesis to eliminate.
Schools, plural. You can solve the Agrippa trilemma by appeal to arbitrary rules—but whose arbitrary rules? Maybe you can justify non arbitrary hypothesis selection rules—but how? Circularly? With regress? There are reasons why philosophy remains “unsolved”
Schools, plural. You can solve the Agrippa trilemma by appeal to arbitrary rules—but whose arbitrary rules? Maybe you can justify non arbitrary hypothesis selection rules—but how? Circularly? With regress? There are reasons why philosophy remains “unsolved”