• Beginning of Infinity -> Progress is a result of us seeking "good explanations"
• Empiricism: deriving theoretical understanding from sensory experiences
  • Scientific theories are not derived from anything; they are "conjectures" -> experience helps to pick the adequate conjecture; definition of "learning from experience"
• no amount of deduction applied to statements describing a set of experiences can reach a conclusion about anything other than those experiences
• Inductivism: "the idea that theories can be derived from, or established on the basis of, facts"
• the future will resemble the past doctrine

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