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This paper was to have had a motto, but John Watkins got in first. One of the two mottoes of his Science and Scepticism is “We have to try to adopt a highly critical attitude towards those theories which we admire most” (Karl Popper). I admire many of the theories of Science and Scepticism: difficult problems are confronted head-on and considerable ingenuity goes in to solving them. But I must say no more in that vein. Instead I must follow the exhortation in Watkins’ motto, which was to have been mine too.
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Musgrave, A. (1989). Saving Science from Scepticism. In: D’Agostino, F., Jarvie, I.C. (eds) Freedom and Rationality. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 117. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2380-5_17
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