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Serious philosophers of science (a la Popper and Poincare) had a succinct term for more-or-less right: verisimilitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilit
by samirillian 10y ago
Serious philosophers of science (a la Popper and Poincare) had a succinct term for more-or-less right: verisimilitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude
I always enjoy finding the right word for summing up a heretofore real but fuzzy concept.
- jbpetersen 10y agoI enjoy it as well. Having various precisely descriptive words does a lot to help my thoughts flow nicely. Thanks for adding another to my collection.