One of the most important epistemic skills is placing a surprising claim in its “causal neighborhood”pic.twitter.com/l4U4VlDpGs
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so "there goes the neighborhood" can be a principled reason to resist a theory even if it is the only good one available at the time - it may be prudent to wait to see if a less disruptive one come along before starting excavation work in everyone's backyards
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maybe it does exist and I'm just not aware of it or maybe it's not such a great idea but I always kind of felt that Lakatos dropped the fundamental theorems of a powerful formal epistemology on the floor and wandered off & nobody's yet really taken them up as such in earnest
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