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probabilities attach themselves to the descriptions of events and not to events themselves.

One solves a problem by finding new or amended theories, containing explanations which do not have the deficiencies, but do retain the merits, of existing explanations

science as ‘PNP’.

As astronomical predictions became more accurate, the differences between what successive theories predicted about the appearance of the night sky diminished. Ever more powerful telescopes and measuring instruments have had to be constructed to detect the differences. However, the explanations underlying these predictions have not been converging.

how to write algorithms that could change their code and get smarter as they develop. We now call this evolutionary programming.

we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.

Comme l’écrivit Gruber, les activités d’un créateur « peuvent paraître de l’extérieur comme un ménage déroutant » mais il, ou elle, est capable de « relier » chaque activité à une des entreprises en cours. « Sur certains plans, a conclu Gruber, les plus grandes œuvres de Charles Darwin sont des compilations interprétatives de faits au préalable