The Beginning of Infinity
by David Deutsch
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Deutsch argues all progress stems from good explanations, conjectures hard to vary while still accounting for what we observe. Problems are inevitable but always soluble.
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It draws on The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and The Origin of Species.
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Deutsch references Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Deutsch references Darwin's Origin on explanatory knowledge.
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