oh right, my bad. this is what Deutsch is getting at in FoR ch 7 and the reach idea right? i liked that stuff. is this standard popper? i think i buy it for now.
but just playing devil’s advocate: how is popper more than just distributed error correction? like what if a theory has an obvious flaw but no one in the room sees it? what if people see it but don’t want to say? what if they try but can’t explain it well enough? all of those give you a false positive. is popper adding something more fundamental here? is it that the true theory actually helps you see what’s wrong with the false one because the false one will have inconsistencies the true one exposes?