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What I’m not seeing in the Critical Rationality tradition, so far, is a workable account of how scientific theories do get confirmed in practice. (Which clearly does happen and is important, contra Popper’s early views.)
Maybe @DavidDeutschOxf has a good story about this?
My take is that we can’t get a general account or ultimate “why does this work, logically.” But by examining specific cases of successful science, we can see how diverse specific methods work in their specific context.
These “hows” come with much weaker guarantees than rationalist-eternalists would like; but they can be pragmatically useful. Whereas most existing philosophy of science is irrelevant, useless, or worse in its influence on scientific practice.
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