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FrameBenignly comments on Open thread, Dec. 21 - Dec. 27, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: FrameBenignly 22 December 2015 03:30:57PM 0 points [-]

You're referring to how it is described in statistics textbooks. I'm talking about confirmation theory as a philosophy.