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Because many philosophers of science reject Popper's views as unrepresentative of the way science is done by real people in the real world. The Wikipedia page f
by twblalock 10y ago
Because many philosophers of science reject Popper's views as unrepresentative of the way science is done by real people in the real world. The Wikipedia page for falsifiability enumerates some of these criticisms.
- mirimir 10y agoWell, then those real people aren't doing science.
- twblalock 10y agoThis is the No True Scotsman fallacy, and a rather obvious example of it.
- mirimir 10y agoOK, so what do you consider to be science with hypotheses that can't be falsified? Edit: Much cosmology and some theoretical physics seem pretty iffy to me, but at least there's the possibility of falsifiable hypotheses.
- alayne 10y agohttp://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/socialresearch/falsificationism.htm http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/socialresearch/f...
- mirimir 10y agoInteresting, but it doesn't mention Kuhn. Also, there's seems to be some attachment to the idea that truth can be proven.