Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 41 | 115 | "That is interesting," said Hci. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 41 | 112 | "Most are View more quotes about presumably">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. |
| 41 | 118 | "We can sometimes be rationally certain of the correctness of an explanation," I said, "so certain that it would be foolish not to accept it". |
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"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.
"We can sometimes be rationally certain of the correctness of an explanation," I said, "so certain that it would be foolish not to accept it".
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)