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> Could you elaborate on what you perceive as the problem with falsificationism? Operationally? You have to pick a null hypothesis. You have to carve reality i
by thanatropism 9y ago
> Could you elaborate on what you perceive as the problem with falsificationism?
Operationally? You have to pick a null hypothesis. You have to carve reality in two, specify two possible universes and ask an experiment to tell you which universe where you're in.
Darwinism (the one in Darwin's works) isn't like this. Adhesion to falsificationism would have nipped that one in the bud.
Stuff like this is the way forward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_holism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_holism
- dahauns 9y agoI always wonder where this naive falsificationism as a point of critique comes from. Certainly not from Popper, as he already argued for holism in the sense of Duhem and Quine from the beginning (Logik der Forschung was written in 1934!)...
- Confusion 9y agoFrom addressing the great many naive falsificationists that have heard of, or were taught, Popper’s basic idea without any of his elaborations and footnotes, let alone those by people like Quine, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, ... A little knowledge can be a dangerously misleading thing.