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tldr: logical positivism is just wrong. Falsificationism is not even wrong, but gestures at an adjacent sound epistemolgy: a truth is like a log of experimental tinkering with an idea. There’s no such thing as “falsifiable in principle”. You’re either tweaking it or it’s dead.
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In Pratchett’s Raising Steam, the character Dick Simnel, who invents the steam locomotive (fictionalized George Stephenson), keeps tinkering with an improving his first prototype even as newer/bigger production models help build out the industrial revolution on Discworld.
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I treat "true" as "aligned with reality", like a trued-up board in carpentry. All artifacts have a "truth" of 1, just like past events have a "probability" of 1. Alive vs dead seems about whether future truths align with the artifact's reality? Important stat for me, if so.
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