“If falsehood, like truth, had only one face, we would be in better shape. For we would take as certain the opposite of what the liar said. But the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and a limitless field.” – Montaigne
“There were two of us in the hunt, and when two men set out to find a golf ball in the rough, they expect to come across it where the straight line marked in their minds eye to it, from their original positions, crossed. In the same way, when two men set out to investigate a crime mystery, it is where their researches intersect that we have a result.” – Joseph Bell
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- 1-2g New theory is constrained in terms of what it can say, since it must either be consistent with existing theories, or contradict them but address the problems thereby raised
- 1-2g2q1 Science is about independent replication. Only trust as scientific truth what can be independently verified-replicated.
- 1-2h A good explanation makes it harder to fool yourself
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