Computers can't adequately evaluate hypotheses

A computer model of scientific discovery would have to use a criterion of preference to choose between hypotheses that explain data equally well. But such criterion tend to be imprecise and idiosyncratic making implementation on a computer unlikely.

Carl Hempel, 1985.
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