On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 04:43:50 +0000
The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> Physicists started to realise that physics wasn't about uncovering
> truths so much as simply creating models that worked. Karl Popper
> elucidated the whole position of science rather well in that respect.
> And once you move science out of the realm of 'truth discovery' and into
> the realm of 'model invention', you run into the Problem of Induction.

 I've always thought of science as a mechanism for pruning out
guesses that don't work rather than a mechanism for finding the truth.

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