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Re: ABSOLUTELY TRUE THEORIES

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From: Juan R. González-Álvarez
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:14
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Pentcho Valev wrote on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:41:00 -0700:

> Philosophers of science have devised strange concepts such as
> verisimilitude (proximity to truth) and pessimistic induction (all
> theories in the past proved partially false so present and future
> theories are partially false as well) which contradict the deductive
> method.

This is a wrong epistemological approach to scientific theories.

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