What Makes One Idea Better Than Another?

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Benjamin Davies’s avatar
Benjamin DaviesOP​·​#5246​·​

When we reject explanation B in favour of explanation A, there must be some property of the explanations that comprehensively distinguishes A as better than B.

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Benjamin DaviesOP​·​#5249​·​

That property is hard-to-vary-ness.

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Benjamin DaviesOP​·​#5250​·​

The more HTV an explanation is, the more closely it corresponds to reality.

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Dennis Hackethal​·​#5252​·​

The idea ‘I’m located in a hemisphere’ is ‘easy to vary’ as to which hemisphere but it’s true, meaning it corresponds to reality.

HTV and correspondence are orthogonal.

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