“Nothing can be done without preconceived ideas; only there must be the wisdom not to accept their deductions beyond what experiments confirm.” – Louis Pasteur
“When the facts don’t fit the theory, the practitioner doubts the theory, the theorist doubts the facts, and the skeptical empiricist doubts both facts and theory.” – Nassim Talebrevisit
“There is no great mystery in this matter…the facts appear to admit of only one explanation.” – Sherlock Holmes
“More is missed by not looking than not knowing.” – Thomas McCrae
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- Truth is about correspondence with reality
- 1-2f1b3a Deutsch - ‘Nor is a person capable of making progress merely by virtue of being willing to drop a theory when it is refuted; one must also be seeking a better explanation of the relevant phenomena. That is the scientific frame of mind.‘
- 1-2g2b2 The Turing principle is also about the correspondence between the two bodies, and knowledge is not necessarily embodied in the human mind
- 1-2g2q1 Science is about independent replication. Only trust as scientific truth what can be independently verified-replicated.
- 10-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the society
- 1-2g2c1 Testability matters only when you have a good explanation (hard-to-vary explanation)
- 4-1a4b2a4 Prioritize by weighing the value of additional information against the cost of not deciding
- 13-6f Praxeology is concerned with that part of value scales that can be ascertained from actions