A reply to Lawrence Boland on the issue of conventionalism: LB>> No, Larry, Popper "accepts" basic statements only because those who he is criticizing do....
A reply to Rafe Champion about the issue of moving beyond justificationist or dogmatic tendencies in L Sc D... LB> No, Larry, Popper "accepts" basic statements...
Thanks Larry T, we are making some progress here. "How does Bartley's version of CRism deal with this problem in contrast to Popper's 1934 version? Did Bartley...
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Mar 1, 2007 11:02 pm
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... really ... No, the problem is that nobody really believes or takes seriously the 'justification' part. Just as in your 'inconclusive good reasons', nobody...
... Again, conventions are hard to avoid in any discourse, critical or otherwise. So long as the conventions used are open to question and criticism, there is ...
Lawrence Boland
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Mar 2, 2007 12:45 am
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It may help in the context of the present discussion to see some notes that I wrote to introduce Bartley's 1964 paper which can be acessed by a link from my...
Rafe CHAMPION
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Larry, KAH> Popper did not recommend this. Remember, basic statements are potential falsifiers, not potential justifiers. Popper recommended a halt in the...
LT> I think the systematic problem we have here is that when I argue that there is such a thing as fallible justification, nobody really believes or takes...
I think here's the nub of the latest exchanges with Kenneth Hopf: LT>...I see what you and Miller mean, but it's not as if the sort of open- ended critical...
Larry, LT>Anyway, I think the problem is with both parts. CRists do not take my sense of 'justification' seriously because they do not understand why a...
Larry, Very briefly, because I have other work to finish, I would say that your reply here confuses the question "why do I believe A?" with the question "why...
Larry, I'm afraid I don't understand why the problem is a serious one. I know Popper thought it was, because he had this notion that Science might grind to a...
Larry, Larry Tapper wrote: [snip] ... Larry, "epistemic justification" in the classical sense is normative too, but it relates to things like empirical fit,...
Larry and Ken, My view is similar to Ken's, but just a little different in the following respect. I don't see the difference here as so much one of fact as it...
I'm looking for information and criticism in regards to ethnolinguistic fractionalization. Can anyone recommend anything? Here is the context: Recently the...
Thanks to Rafe Champion for the Bartley links. A follow-up question below... LT> How does Bartley's version of CRism deal with this problem in contrast to...
Some interleaved responses to Joe Firestone. [some snippage] LT> Our cardinal-in- the-feeder example is a case in point. We all agree, of course, that...
Hi Joe (Larry, too), I am a longtime lurker on this list and a fan of Joe's (we have met in other discussion lists). I have a question that is probably...
Monday last week I posted some questions about Popper's Principle of Transference, mentioned on page 24 of OK. Does this really not ring a bell with anybody?...
Rafe C> I think the relevant bit of Bartley is in the third of his series of long essays in Philosophia which Matt and I contrive to put on line. (Must do...
RC> The key section is XIV The Check of Experience or Evidence. That's great, thanks. You must do something about the first two, but what about the last two? ...
Rafe CHAMPION
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... Link: I don't have time to flesh out the details now, but I happen to think that there is a connection between the idea of rights and Popper's world three....
Hi Matt, I think Legitimacy is the proper regulative ideal for human rights. See my paper on "Correspondence Theories of Truth and legitimacy," posted at:: ...
Larry, You're not the only one who's had trouble with this passage. Following a review of the issue on pp. 79-83 of their Learning From Error: Karl Popper's...
... JE:- But a "justification" only means a verification while "fallibility" requires any idea to remain falsifiable even when verified. ... JE:- What we lose...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is in the press again, this time with a new biography. In the past she's been a strong advocate of the open society, Karl Popper and F.A....
... her. ... say ... The ... are ... JE:- I admire this intelligent, articulate and forthright women. We have no idea what she has had to suffer. A REAL...
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