Kevin Simler

I realize this is reductionist in the extreme, but my bedrock epistemology has always been "trial and error."

"Keep what works, discard what doesn't" is the rule behind every process that generates knowledge.

The operative (and human-complete) word here is "works." But the "keep/discard" part of the rule is simple and universal.

(This is my attempt at a tweet-sized summary of Popper/Deutsch/Bartley.)

Yeah, I know only Popper of those, but I think his story is simplistic and does not match what scientists actually do.

It may not match scientists' day-to-day practice, but it matches science at some level of description (the relevant lvl, IMO).

I guess that depends in part on what your goals are. There is “why should we believe Science?” which Popper addresses, >

> and his story is probably pretty good for justifying Science to lay people.