Popper on instrumentalism and conventionalism
"But it's under .05!" 2013-03-15
Summary:
[The scientist's] aim is to find explanatory theories (if possible, true explanatory theories); that is to say, theories which describe certain structural properties of the world, and which permit us to deduce, with the help of initial conditions, the effects to be explained. “Initial conditions” are singular statements that apply to a specific event in [...]