... I try my best to understand. ... Again, "basic statements" was the terminology of the Vienna logical positivists Popper was attempting to debate with. He,...
Lawrence Boland
boland@...
Apr 1, 2008 7:54 pm
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"Karl Popper argues that a good scientific theory is falsifiable. A conclusion of this argument is that deductive reasoning only occurs in science. Consider...
Lawrence, I do not have access to a copy of "The Logic of Scientific Discovery" as I write this, but from my recollection, Popper used the term "basic ...
Pressing on to explore the works of Mises and the Austrians, and the failure of Mises and Popper to achieve a meeting of minds. "The methods of scientific...
Lee Kelly wrote:- ... JE:- Hi Lee, Observing a metal which does not bend only presents a non verification and not a refutation. This is because the metal...
... <boland@...> wrote: LB> ...Again, "basic statements" was the terminology of the Vienna logical positivists Popper was attempting to debate with. He, ...
John, I remain utterly baffled by your responses, because of your seemingly impenetrable use of language, and now also because you have responded to something...
... Obviously, one of us has to go back and read what Bartley(*) said about Popper's use of "basic statements". But my argument is that whatever adjective he...
Lawrence Boland
boland@...
Apr 3, 2008 9:11 pm
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Matt, Take a look at this one http://www.galilean-library.org/manuscript.php?postid=43833 <http://www.galilean-library.org/manuscript.php?postid=43833> . There...
... I agree with this. The Austrians are really missing out by not paying more attention to Popper. I think some of the Mises followers are particularly bad...
Dear All, I have finally taken the plunge into 'gmail'. My new private e-address, effective immediately, is kth.sewell@... . I will keep checking the...
Before Marriage: read from the top down John - Ah at last. I can hardly wait. Jane - Do you want to leave John - No! Don't even think about it. Jane - Do you...
Lee Kelly wrote:- ... JE:- You have not separated falsifiable fallibility from non falsifiable fallibility. This has resulted in a failure to separate...
Hoppe is very doctrinaire. He studied Popper early in his career and probably thinks he knows all that he needs about positivism. Pity about Rothbard and...
I believe that Rogers is basically right. We don't have a free market in currency, so it's nonsensical to suggest that the free market either can or cannot...
Yea ... I put it that way for Larry Tapper months ago. ... http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com/2008/04/on-being-plausibly-right.html That's not a bad way to put...
Is cherry picking a technical term among popperians? It's just that I was accused on this list of cherry picking at one time and really didn't understand it, ...
It is tiring to keep on reading that kind of thing, I just hope that someone tells us when there is a fresh wrinkle introduced in criticism of CR. Part of the...
Don't we all agree that the market suffers from anti-competitive behavior? _____ From: CriticalRationalism@yahoogroups.com ...
Aaron Agassi
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Apr 6, 2008 9:18 pm
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Rafe Champion, As you mention below, I think that nonsense in Q.M. is, among other things, due to subjectivism and "end of the road" idea. I surely would...
OK. I was trying to disprove an hypothesis, rather than prove one. So in that case my cherry picking was probably quite justified. Had I recognized the...
Matt Dioguardi wrore:- ... JE:- Just "truth"? Here is one truth you appear to have chosen to ignore: any negative proposition has to be "justified" using a ...
This continues the Rathouse program of putting some helpful CR and Popperian ideas on line in short form. A summary and commentary on The Open Society...
Hi Matt, Ken ... I believe that Rogers is basically right. We don't have a free market in currency, so it's nonsensical to suggest that the free market...
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