Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 41 | 114 | "I View more quotes about suppose">suppose we can never be absolutely certain," I said, "that of all the theoretically possible explanations, all explanations which would respond effectively to all conceivable tests, all explanations which would agree in explaining phenomena and in yielding predictions, that we have the one true explanation". |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 41 | 111 | "Are all explanations of equal merit?" "No," I said. |
| 41 | 112 | "Most are presumably false". |
| 41 | 113 | "How do we know when we have the one true explanation?" asked Hci. |
| 41 | 114 | "I suppose we can never be absolutely certain," I said, "that of all the theoretically possible explanations, all explanations which would respond effectively to all conceivable tests, all explanations which would agree in explaining phenomena and in yielding predictions, that we have the one true explanation". |
| 41 | 115 | "That is interesting," said Hci. |
| 41 | 116 | "That we cannot prove that an explanation is absolutely correct does not, of course, entail that it is not correct". |
| 41 | 117 | "I understand that," said Hci. |
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"Are all explanations of equal merit?" "No," I said.
"Most are presumably false".
"How do we know when we have the one true explanation?" asked Hci.
"I suppose we can never be absolutely certain," I said, "that of all the theoretically possible explanations, all explanations which would respond effectively to all conceivable tests, all explanations which would agree in explaining phenomena and in yielding predictions, that we have the one true explanation".
"That is interesting," said Hci.
"That we cannot prove that an explanation is absolutely correct does not, of course, entail that it is not correct".
"I understand that," said Hci.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)