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    Observing evidence of discreteness of space would not suffice to select loop quantum gravity over rival theories

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    • 1.Underdetermination of theory by evidence, as articulated by Duhem and Quine, entails that any single empirical result leaves multiple rival theories intact.
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    • 2.LQG, causal set theory, and spin foam models all predict discrete Planck-scale structure through distinct mathematical mechanisms yet identical observational signatures.
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    • 3.When empirically equivalent rivals exist, observed evidence cannot serve as a sufficient condition for selecting any one theory over its competitors.
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    • 1.Inference to the best explanation requires discriminating virtues such as superior unification or novel predictive success, not merely shared confirmatory instances.
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    • 2.Discreteness of space is a structural feature entailed by LQG's foundational commitments but is equally derivable from rival formalisms without borrowing LQG's specific ontology.
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    • 3.Therefore, confirming discreteness confirms only the disjunction of discrete-space theories, leaving LQG's theoretical identity epistemically unselected.
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    • 1.Many approaches to quantum gravity involve discreteness of space
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    • 2.Shared predictions cannot discriminate between the theories that share them
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    Loop quantum gravity is seemingly less plagued by a lack of predictions, and indeed it is often claimed that the discreteness of area and volume operators are concrete predictions of the theory, with potentially testable consequences. Proponents of this approach argue that this makes the theory more susceptible to falsification, and thus more scientific (in the sense of Popper; see the entry on Karl Popper) than string theory (see Smolin 2006 for this line of argument). However, it is still qu
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