From the course: Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Prediction, Causation, and Statistical Inference
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Popper on induction and falsification
From the course: Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Prediction, Causation, and Statistical Inference
Popper on induction and falsification
- [Instructor] Carl Popper is a philosopher of science and one of the most important thinkers of the last century. Some have tried to refute Hume regarding the problem of induction, but not Popper. He took Hume's challenge, accepted it and ran with it, but he offered one of the most influential solutions to the problem which is still largely accepted in scientific communities today. He's famous for contributing to the discussion around two big ideas, the problem of induction and the problem of demarcation. Let's tackle demarcation first. He was trying to fair it out what makes science different from what he called pseudoscience. And since we are worried how to convince with evidence, this is going to be a topic of importance to us too. He frequently used Einstein and Freud as examples. Although he was younger than either of them, they were all alive when Popper was developing his ideas. For him, Einstein was an exemplar…
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