While no evidence can be conclusive, we seem to be inclined to accept something (whose existence has been conjectured) as actually existing if its existence is corroborated; for example, by the discovery of effects that we would expect to find if it did exist. However, we may say that this corroboration indicates first, that something is there; at least the fact of this corroboration will have to be explained by any future theory. Secondly, the corroboration indicates that the theory that involves the conjectured real entities may be true, or that it may be near to the truth (that it has a good degree of verisimilitude). [10]
The corroboration of facts
- By PeterM in .Popper, Karl and John C. Eccles, The Self and Its Brain
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12 August 2016
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