What Makes One Idea Better Than Another?

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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·​#5257·​·​Criticism

An explanation can be harder to vary than a rival and still contain a fatal flaw of another kind. Unless every possible fatal flaw is itself a form of ETV, HTV cannot comprehensively determine which explanation should be rejected.

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