Pessimistic Metainduction

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Pessimistic Metainduction

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Saw this on another forum and wanted to share...

Global warming skeptics would be interested in this page:

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(Pessimistic metainduction, by the way, is the view that all or most of our current scientific theories will turn out to be false or will be rejected in the future in light of future evidence, because this has been the case with so many of our past theories)
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Post by CygnusX1 »

I don't believe a word of that 'pessimistic metainduction' :roll: :P

j/k Elf.....Interesting read. History DOES repeat itself, eh? (Hello CANADA) :cool:
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Post by awip2062 »

Just goes to show that we can guess, we don't know, eh?
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