There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity
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Oct 18, 2021•3 min
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No Truth Can Be Justified
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Oct 15, 2021•2 min
With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
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Oct 08, 2021•2 min
The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1
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Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Rational Optimism Is the Way Out
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May 24, 2021•2 min
Pessimism Seems Like an Intellectually Serious Position
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May 17, 2021•2 min
It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse
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May 14, 2021•2 min
We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance
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May 12, 2021•1 min
It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories
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May 11, 2021•3 min
Science Advances One Funeral at a Time
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May 07, 2021•1 min
Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out Failures
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May 05, 2021•2 min
Theories Are Explanations, Not Predictions
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May 03, 2021•3 min
Science Is an Error-Correcting Mechanism
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Apr 30, 2021•2 min
Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality
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Apr 28, 2021•2 min
We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen
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Apr 26, 2021•1 min
The Multiverse
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Apr 21, 2021•2 min
Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
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Apr 19, 2021•3 min
Probability Is Subjective
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Apr 16, 2021•2 min
We Can’t Prove Most Theorems with Known Physics
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Apr 14, 2021•2 min
Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate
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Apr 12, 2021•2 min
Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous?
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Apr 09, 2021•2 min
All Knowledge Is Conjectural
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Apr 07, 2021•3 min
The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible
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Apr 05, 2021•3 min
There Is No Settled Mathematics
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Apr 02, 2021•3 min
There Is No End of Science
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Mar 31, 2021•2 min
Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary
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Mar 26, 2021•2 min
Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity
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Mar 24, 2021•2 min
Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things
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Mar 22, 2021•1 min
It’s Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge
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Mar 19, 2021•2 min
People Are a Force of Nature
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Mar 17, 2021•3 min