Inductive reasoning is false. Popper solved that problem quite convincingly.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
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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Replying to @JCMaas @BaileyNagy
Would he disagree with the wine bottles & tennis ball example?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
Yes. Knowledge is created by conjecture and criticism. Observation or experiment never confirms theory 100%. Can only refute.
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Replying to @JCMaas @BaileyNagy
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
We tentatively assume, yes. Hypothesis will get corroborated but never confirmed.
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Replying to @JCMaas @BaileyNagy
I mentioned that in the essay but in reality, we can only obtain knowledge by assuming a system of reality to exist. Or we give up trying.
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The inability to be absolutely sure we can know anything is something that shld be acknowledged but then we have to carry on trying.
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I get a lot of solipsists (usually postmodernists) who like to use this to claim all knowledge claims equally true.
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Eg We can't be absolutely sure we or the universe even exist so evolution is no more true than creationism
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