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If 2 out of 3 critics that you found are ad-hominem attacks, I can rest tranquil that Popper is a safe read. "Is the falsifiable concept falsifiable" -> why ye

• georgia_peach 4y ago
  The ad hominems were entirely called for. He was just another academic bully playing word games--his entire gimmick based upon a reading of things into Plato that weren't there. Of course Wittgenstein would be the one to immediately see through him, and act accordingly--like Jesus did with the moneychangers.
  • work_ta_220503 4y ago
    You know what, you're right, I won't dispute his incapacity to correctly read the classics. I took offense to the attack on the question of falsifiability, which is philosophically miles ahead of anything else that came out of Europe in the last 2 centuries (barring, of course, wittgenstein himself)
    • georgia_peach 4y ago
      “I don't want to hurt you” seemed like a cop-out to me. Someone who was legit would see that as a wonderful opportunity to spread the light. No need to hurt anyone.