Many philosophers enjoy trying to cut through this & clarify (others enjoy obscuring it further but ignore them). I'm not a philosopher
Inductive reasoning can also establish truth but so much philosophy doesn't aim to do that
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Inductive reasoning is false. Popper solved that problem quite convincingly.
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Did he?
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IMO yes, in his 'conjectures and refutations'. Often in humanities only his falsification theory is taught. That is not the whole story.
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Would he disagree with the wine bottles & tennis ball example?
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Yes. Knowledge is created by conjecture and criticism. Observation or experiment never confirms theory 100%. Can only refute.
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So we can only assume that bigger things don't fit inside smaller things coz every time it's been tried, it's failed?
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Sokal & Bricmont acknowledge these kinds of points. We do need to go on reasonable hypotheses abt stable reality.
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Corroborated hypotheses are all we have indeed. Improving on them = growth of knowledge.
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