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    There are methods of theory evaluation and constraints functioning in quantum gravity in something like the way experiment and observation function.

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    • 1.There is a rudimentary 'pecking order' amongst the various approaches to quantum gravity.
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    • 2.The history of quantum gravity contains various fatalities (abandoned approaches).
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    • 1.A 'pecking order' among theories reflects sociological factors—funding, prestige, institutional inertia—not epistemic warrant.
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    • 2.Imre Lakatos showed that research programs can persist through anomalies via protective belt adjustments, making internal ranking non-truth-tracking.
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    • 3.Without empirical contact, theory preference reduces to aesthetic and pragmatic values, which Kuhn and Feyerabend argued are theory-laden and non-convergent.
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    • 1.The abandonment of approaches in quantum gravity has been driven by mathematical inconsistency or redundancy, not empirical refutation.
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    • 2.Larry Laudan's pessimistic meta-induction shows that historically successful and 'preferred' theories are routinely discarded, undermining fatality as an epistemic signal.
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    • 3.Elimination of rivals through formal rather than empirical means establishes logical consistency, not observational adequacy, as the operative constraint.
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    Research in quantum gravity has always had a rather peculiar flavor, owing to both the technical and conceptual difficulty of the field and the remoteness from experiment. Yoichiro Nambu (1985) wryly labels research on quantum gravity “postmodern physics” on account of its experimental remoteness. Thus conventional notions of the close relationship between theory and experiment have but a tenuous foothold, at best, in quantum gravity. However, since there is a rudimentary ‘pecking order’ amongst
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