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There is only one way of making progress: conjecture (guesses) and criticism. We create theories by rearranging, combining, altering and adding to existing ideas with the intention of improving upon them. The role of experiment and observation is to choose between existing theories, not to be the source of new ones.
Experience is indeed essential to science, but it's not the source from which theories are derived. Its main use is to choose between theories that have already been guessed.
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2 interpretations of human progress inspired 2 broad branches of the Enlightenment:
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Enlightenment represents a way of pursuing knowledge with a tradition of criticism and seeking good explanations instead of reliance on authority. Enlightenment's quintessential idea is that progress is both desirable and attainable.
The Enlightenment was a revolution in ho...
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Is the possibility of the unlimited growth of knowledge in the future.
David Deutsch, a renouned phisicist, postulates that Knowledge consists of explanations (assertions about what is out there beyond the appearances). For most of the history , we had almo...
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We want true explanations. So we seek explanations that remain robust when we test them against those flickers and shadows, and against each other, and against criteria of logic and reasonableness and everything else we can think of. And when we can change t...
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Are ideas that replicate.
The world’s major cultures – including nations, languages, philosophical and artistic movements, social traditions and religions – have been created incrementally over hundreds or even thousands of years. Most of the ideas that define them, includi...
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Problems are conflicts between explanations or theories. Expectations are theories too.
Solving a problem means creating an explanation that does not have the conflict.
Since theories can contradict each other, but there are no cont...
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A culture is a set of ideas that cause their holders to behave alike in some ways. By ‘ideas’ I mean any information that can be stored in people’s brains and can affect their behaviour.
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Science is not about prediction. But explanations. Predictions are used to validate new explanations.
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