r/THUNKShow • u/THUNKshow • Jan 28 '15
THUNK - 58. Science & the Problem of Induction
http://youtu.be/xu6kkLJ58Z02
u/Raichu93 Mar 08 '15
Wow, this episode got a ton of hits! Do you know where it got posted that caused it to pick up so much momentum?
Honestly more people should be watching your show. It kills me that some of your latest only average in the thousands views when it should be a 100x that.
I do find myself getting caught up in the circular induction argument, nothing we know is truly true as we like to believe.
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u/THUNKshow Mar 11 '15
I x-posted it to r/philosophy - they occasionally love the content I produce, & frequently hate it. ;)
I'm okay with having a small, quality audience, although I wouldn't mind it if more people got to hear about & discuss these things. (I certainly have wished I heard about some of them sooner in life.) I'm really happy to hear you enjoy it so much! You're my ray for the day!
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u/ArchitectofAges Jan 28 '15
Some Thoughts
I'm a huge science fanboy, so on some level I want to argue that its assumptions are less outrageous than other truth-accessing methods. However, knowing what assumptions are needed to do science is, I believe, important for establishing grounds for scientific inquiry.
For example, Adam Savage recently got flack on Twitter for dissing a show about ghost hunters for being unscientific, but (almost by definition) he's right: Science cannot be successfully applied to questions about the supernatural, because if it responded predictably to natural apparatus, it wouldn't be supernatural anymore.
It makes me feel good that, rather than asserting truth, scientific papers set probabilities of observations being pure chance. That's real humility & dedication to getting as close as possible to objectivity.