Further reading:\n\nDavid Deutsch: \u201cThe Beginning of Infinity\u201d, chapter 1, \u201cThe Reach of Explanations\u201d\n\nKarl Popper:\n- On verisimilitude: \u201cConjectures and Refutations\u201d, chapter \u201cTruth, Rationality, and the Growth of Knowledge\u201d, section \u201cTruth and Content: Verisimilitude versus Probability\u201d\n- On the conflation of probability and verisimilitude: \u201cBack to the Presocratics\u201d\n- On problems with verisimilitude: \u201cObjective Knowledge\u201d appendix 2