Comment by apathy
9 years ago
Incidentally, if you are a Popperian, you'll note that the best we can do in the sciences is to disprove (empirically falsify) a theory.
Outside of math, there is (almost?) no absolute proof. The weight of the evidence is all we have.
I believe Popper thought you might be able to find a metric to judge how close to a "truth" one theory might be compared to others.