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Debatable: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/#Fals https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/#Fals Popper even thought evolution by na
by naasking 2y ago
Debatable:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/#Fals https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/#Fals
Popper even thought evolution by natural selection was not falsifiable.
- naasking 2y agoWhat's interesting was not that he changed his mind, but that he adjusted his own understanding of falsification to accomodate new data rather than letting it falsify his framework. If you keep reading, you that this led to Kuhn's criticism of Popper's approach, and his motion of scientific revolutions, which we see actually being practiced: particle dark matter has technically been falsified many times, but we didn't throw it out but instead revised it to accomodate new data. It is only when these sorts of revisions become less plausible compared to a totally different approach that science meaningfully progresses.
- janalsncm 2y agoThe next paragraph mentions that he retracted this statement the next year.
- mistermann 2y agoHow does science conclusively resolve "is"? It seems to be a function of human opinion based on this.