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ToA Episode 43: Deep Reinforcement Learning
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ToA Episode 43: Deep Reinforcement Learning

Posted on April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In this video upload available on Spotify (we’ll try this once and see how it’s received), we revisit Reinforcement Learning (from way back in episode…

ToA Episode 42: Popper without Refutation & Resolving the Problems of Refutation (part 2)
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ToA Episode 42: Popper without Refutation & Resolving the Problems of Refutation (part 2)

Posted on March 29, 2022March 28, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

Over the years Bruce collected a series of ‘problems’ with the Popperian concept of refutation. Or so he thought. A chance encounter with Popper scholar…

Popper Without “Refutation”
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Popper Without “Refutation”

Posted on March 21, 2022March 23, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

By Bruce Nielson Full Presentation Available at The Theory of Anything Podcast, Episode 41 Thomas Kuhn’s Challenge to Popper In Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of…

Theory of Anything Episode 41: The Problems of Refutation & Popper Without Refutation (part 1)
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Theory of Anything Episode 41: The Problems of Refutation & Popper Without Refutation (part 1)

Posted on March 17, 2022March 16, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

Over the years Bruce collected a series of ‘problems’ with the Popperian concept of refutation. Or so he thought. A chance encounter with Popper scholar…

How to Make Popper’s Epistemology More Clear
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How to Make Popper’s Epistemology More Clear

Posted on March 10, 2022March 5, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In my last post, I discussed how Popper scholar Danny Frederick and Physicist David Deutsch (also a Popperian) actually use the word ‘refutation’ in distinctly…

The Two (or More) Kinds of Refutation
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The Two (or More) Kinds of Refutation

Posted on March 8, 2022March 1, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

We previously discussed Popper’s own views on why there is an asymmetry between refutations and verifications. But this didn’t really answer my question entirely. If,…

But What If You Verify a Theory That Can Only Be Verified?
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But What If You Verify a Theory That Can Only Be Verified?

Posted on March 3, 2022March 4, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In a previous post, I mentioned a partial resolution to Penrose’s challenge to Popper’s falsifiability. But in footnote 3 I mentioned that there was still…

Demarcation: What Does it Mean to Be Empirical?
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Demarcation: What Does it Mean to Be Empirical?

Posted on March 1, 2022February 10, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

Popper’s demarcation criterion is widely understood as an attempt to find the boundary between science and pseudo-science. But in his paper “Addressing Three Popular Philosophic…

Are Refutations and Verification Really Symmetrical Within A Theory Comparison?
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Are Refutations and Verification Really Symmetrical Within A Theory Comparison?

Posted on February 24, 2022February 24, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In my posts on the problems of refutation, I’ve claimed that within a theory-to-theory comparison refutations and verifications/support are symmetrical. I showed that Popper actually…

There is Nothing Wrong with the Language of Support
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There is Nothing Wrong with the Language of Support

Posted on February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

For many years I was bothered by the idea that there was no such thing as verification or support in science. In this post, I…

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