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The Beginning of Infinity

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

Finished
November 2023
Status
read
Tags
philosophy physics epistemology

Review

A bold, occasionally infuriating, ultimately exhilarating book about the nature of explanation itself. Deutsch argues that good explanations are the engine of all progress and that there is no problem that is in principle unsolvable by the right kind of knowledge. I disagree with about a third of it. The other two thirds I think about constantly.

"Problems are inevitable. Problems are soluble."