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You're not giving that impression, but your criticism was warranted. (I don't understand falsification as well as I thought I did.) I wouldn't quite say that t
by wizzwizz4 2y ago
You're not giving that impression, but your criticism was warranted. (I don't understand falsification as well as I thought I did.)
I wouldn't quite say that thought experiments are always deceiving (Albert Einstein found them quite useful, for example), but they are very parodiable. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/183 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/183
> "Did he just… not see any of us?" "Rationalists are terrible at seeing stuff. He probably just tried to deduce who was here from reason alone."
- mmooss 2y ago> criticism Really, purely curiosity. At first, one thing I was wondering was if some new theory might have caught hold in some corner of academia, for example. Then I wondered if I misunderstood falsification myself. > Einstein found them quite useful, for example He is why I made the exception for math. His 'experiment' used math (exclusively?) - and wasn't relied upon until confirmed empirically.