What Makes One Idea Better Than Another?

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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·#5249·1d

That property is hard-to-vary-ness.

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Benjamin DaviesOP·#5250·1d

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

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Dennis Hackethal·#5262·1d

There’s a risk in posting follow-up thoughts as nested comments. The risk is that criticism chains won’t bubble up far enough.

If you want to add more information to an idea, I suggest revising it.

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Benjamin DaviesOP·#5266·1d

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They are seperate ideas, and the latter ideas depend on the former. If there is a flaw in former ideas, they apply to latter ideas, but if there is a flaw in latter ideas, they don’t necessarily apply to the former. So arranging them like this was intentional, to respect that hierarchy.

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Benjamin DaviesOP·#5268·1d

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