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Oct 2021
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Ep 91: David Deutsch‘s ”The Fabric of Re...

Brett Hall
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In this podcast we cover a universal scheme for problem solving and then focus in on the special case of problem solving in science and compare this to outdated and refuted attempts to explain how knowledge was supposed to be "justified". Popper wrote that "all life is problem solving" - so I discuss that briefly and throughout we consider that if problems a ... Show More
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