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mikekutzmatoday at 11:19 AM1 replyview on HN

Similar to the ideas in ‘On Practice’. A dialectic is required between practice and theory. https://archive.org/details/onpractice00maoz/mode/1up


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renticuloustoday at 11:31 AM

Working experiments constrain our thinking from spiralling out. This is the true hindsight bais, a good one at that. When we have a working prototype, we can try to break it in many and find out lot about the underlying theory. Theoretical Physicists do this all the time with toy models.