Nicholas, Your persistent and repeated assertions that Popper did NOT do what in fact he actually DID do suggests to me you simply have not read Popper....
Kenneth, I am sure we both have quite a good knowledge of Popper's views, but I wonder how adequate your knowledge is of mine. Have you taken the trouble, for...
Here's something I stumbled across on Questia (http://www.questia.com). There was a book published in 2004 entitled: Karl Popper: A Critical Appraisal This...
"If someone wants a copy of the paper, let me know, I'll forwarded it off-line." The first part of it (and of every other chapter of the book) can be found at:...
[Sorry for the numerous typos in the message I sent earlier. I should have held onto the message a little longer before sending it. Here's the same message...
Nicholas, I was not responding in my last post to your entire oeuvre. Nor did I assert that your views do not differ from Popper's. Rather, I was pointing...
Kenneth, It is not true that Popper thought we need to accept some metaphysical assumptions unquestioningly. He thought nothing of the kind. Let us suppose my...
The Problem: A) All positions are open to criticism. B) A is open to criticism. If B is false, then A is false. However, if A is false then A has been ...
... True. ... Your argument is wrong because step (2) doesn't work. To make it work you would have to replace (2) with another statement (2'): "(2') However, A...
Alan Forrester wrote: "There is a distinction between criticising a theory and criticising it successfully." This is one of the responses I thought of. I...
Lee writes: L> ...However, if A is false then A has been criticised... where A is A) All positions are open to criticism. Lee, I don't see why this should be...
I don't know anything about "pancritical realism" but one obvious difficulty with the statement of this "problem" can be easily resolved if one adopts either...
... I can't answer that without seeing the criticism in question as I can't decide whether or not to accept any particular criticism as valid without seeing...
Is the following statement true: Material implication in logic is *only* a problem for those who seek some measure of support or justification or confirmation...
... seek ... No, I would say that the above statement is clearly false, because the main problem with material implication is that it fails to capture the...
Hallo Peeps, Where might I find Popper's clearest exposition of how to test probabilistic theories? Alan Forrester http://www.settingtheworldtorights.com/ ...
Matt, It seems to me that we may be concerned about two related but slightly different questions here. You quoted a Wiki article with standard examples such as...
Good news everyone! The papers from the 2002 Popper Conference in Vienna are now available in three volumes from Ashgate. Congratulations to Ian Jarvie, David...
I consider that a valid theory of anything (which includes a valid theory of theories, i.e. an epistemology) must be able to be: 1) Verified. 2) Non verified. ...
Dear John, These are interesting thoughts. But how, exactly, would you implement your Requirement 1? Further, how would you define the difference between your...
Hello to all group members, Hi, my name is John Edser and I reside in Sydney Australia. I have just joined the group. I am self employed and regard myself as...
John Edser writes: JE> ...Recently a post was sent to me which dealt with material implication which I thought was very interesting. Here are my views on the...
JE:- Hello Keith, I claim verification was and remains basic to any concept of self consistency. If verification is basic in this way then so must a non ...
To Larry T and others... I have not been reading all of what has be said so far on this topic but it reminded me of something I wrote about "material...
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... JE:- Hello Larry, My apologies, I appear to have reversed the subject and predicate labels. Thank you for the correction. ... JE:- Yes, but in just this...
LB, Thanks for posting that interesting excerpt on the material conditional. I want to make just a few comments on the way you frame the question: LB>...
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