Hmm. I don't think I'm a Popperian. Pure falsification-based empiricism cannot work wherever imagination is necessary.
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The opposite of falsification is not verification, but beauty. Verification is an epistemological second-class behavior.
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A scientific sensibility is the ability to choose correctly when there is a conflict between truth and beauty.
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I think it's more like choosing between different versions of beauty. The ugly fact doesn't have to stay ugly in some versions.
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