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he inductivist theories of knowledge emphatically as less likely to be true clarification needed 32 popper held that seeking for theories with a high probability of being true was a false goal that is in conflict with the search for knowledge science should seek for theories that are most probably false on the one hand which is the same as saying that they are highly falsifiable and so there are many ways that they could turn out to be wrong but still all actual attempts to falsify them have failed so far that they are highly corroborated wesley c salmon criticizes popper on the grounds that predictions need to be made both for practical purposes and in order to test theories that means popperians need to make a selection from the number of unfalsified theories available to them which is generally more than one popperians would wish to choose well corroborated theories in their sense of corroboration but face a dilemma either they are making the essentially inductive claim that a theory s having survived criticism in the past means it will be a reliable predictor in the future or popperian corroboration is no indicator of predictive power at all so there is no rational motivation for their preferred selection principle 33 david miller has criticized this kind of criticism by salmon and others because it makes inductivist assumptions 34 popper does not say that corroboration is an indicator of predictive power the predictive power according to whom is in the theory itself not in its corroboration the rational motivation for choosing a well corroborated theory is that it is simply easier to falsify well corroborated means that at least one kind of experiment already conducted at least once could have falsified but did not actually falsify the one theory while the same kind of experiment regardless of its outcome could not have falsified the other so it is rational to choose the well corroborated theory it may not be more likely to be true but if it is actually false it is easier to get rid of when confronted with the conflicting evidence that will eventually turn up accordingly it is wrong to consider corroboration as a reason a justification for believing in a theory or as an argument in favor of a theory to convince someone who objects to it 35 see also edit a priori and a posteriori two types of knowledge justification or argument abductive reasoning inference seeking the simplest and most likely explanation bayesian inference method of statistical inference consilience principle about evidence hasty generalization conclusion made on the basis of one or few instances of a phenomenon pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets inductive logic programming learning logic programs from data intuitive statistics inverse problem process of calculating the causal factors that produced a set of observations law of large numbers averages of repeated trials converge to the expected value rule of succession formula in probability theory 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