Strangely apropos to the continuing "Rossi mystery" is yesterday's entry:
"Verisimilitude" or the appearance of being true or real ... http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/commcomm/2011/nov/14/word-day-verisimilitude/ The problem of verisimilitude is articulating what it takes for one arguably false theory to be closer to the truth than another false theory, given that all theories are incomplete, and thus false in the strictest sense .... Here is the bit that is most interesting wrt AR - according to Wiki-the-wonderful,: "This problem was central to the philosophy of science of Karl Popper, largely because Popper was among the first to affirm that truth is the aim of scientific inquiry while acknowledging that most of the greatest scientific theories in the history of science are, strictly speaking, false. If this long string of purportedly false theories is to constitute progress with respect to the goal of truth then it must be at least possible for one false theory to be closer to the truth than others."
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