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> If you can't convince someone who doesn't already agree, you shouldn't be allowed to claim knowledge, only opinion. What about global warming denial, anti-va
by haberman 11y ago
> If you can't convince someone who doesn't already agree, you shouldn't be allowed to claim knowledge, only opinion.
What about global warming denial, anti-vax, young-earth creationism, etc? I'm not being snarky, it legitimately troubles me that "can you convince people?" is the best measure of truth we seem to have, because it seems so noisy and unreliable.
- nonbel 11y ago>"What really count are dramatic, unexpected, stunning predictions: a few of them are enough to tilt the balance; where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes." Imre Lakatos. Science and Pseudoscience. From Imre Lakatos, Philosophical Papers, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 1-7. Written in early 1973 http://crl.ucsd.edu/~ahorowit/lakatos.pdf http://crl.ucsd.edu/~ahorowit/lakatos.pdf