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apathy
on July 9, 2016
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The Fallacy of Seeing Patterns
Incidentally, if you are a Popperian, you'll note that the best we can do in the sciences is to disprove (empirically falsify) a theory.
Outside of math, there is (almost?) no absolute proof. The weight of the evidence is all we have.
jsprogrammer
on July 11, 2016
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I believe Popper thought you might be able to find a metric to judge how close to a "truth" one theory might be compared to others.
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Outside of math, there is (almost?) no absolute proof. The weight of the evidence is all we have.