Archive for November 2008

Looking for a Black Swan

November 2, 2008

Induction, for Popper, is simply logically invalid, since you cannot infer that all swans are white merely from having observed that all the ones you have come across are; and anyway induction is not actually used by scientists. The best we can say of a theory is that it has not (yet) been refuted. Thus [...]


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