... JE:- Lee, I only employ the terms "induction" and "deduction" as categories of inference. Unlike Larry, I ague that _only these two categories of inference...
I am happy you find so funny what I wrote… I would just to stress that in my article I try to explain in a detailed way why I believe that Popper did not...
... It has seemed to me that a variety of attempts have been made to satisfy the requests you are counting. For example, in my prior message I offered this:...
... JE:- Ok. Then what category of inference is it? ... JE:- But it only made rational sense if Elliot defined a third category; he didn't. ... JE:- It did...
I think Popper has to share with Mises the responsibility for any misunderstanding between them. Maybe the biographer who is working on Popper can work out...
John Edser, ... It is simply not an inference. It is a statement or proposition. From the Wikipedia on first-order logic we have this: } An inference rule is...
[RC]: From where I sit the Popperian or CR positions on epistemology, methods and metaphysics are central to the survival of Austrian economics and social...
... Abduction is silly; look it up if interested; I only mentioned it as something different. One major way CR differs from induction is in the role of...
This is a lenghty Wik entry on falsifiability. I don't have time to read it right now but it will be interesting to see how fairly and accurately Popper's...
Rafe, I hope that lots of Austrian economists subscribe to this forum. I am totally on board with your project of exploring the synergy between critical...
... That is an unfair statement. It's not an issue of trust. ... This is ambiguous about whether it's saying no professional philosophers of science ever...
... I don't see the appeal of phrasing it this way. If we learned that P is false, then we could also work out that not-P is true. -- Elliot Temple ...
Elliot, Yes, that's a very common criticism of the view I expressed. I reject the criticism because I think it presumes the view that knowledge is something...
... JE:- Elliot, Your point was well made but incomplete. Not-P cannot be claimed to be true or untrue unless it is valid to claim to know what you claim not...
... JE:- If "Abduction is silly" then I have little interest in looking it up :-) ... JE:- Ok ... JE:- Please explain how it is possible to make a conjecture...
Elliot, To put the point perhaps more simply: to learn from experience is to change from experience. The fact that what we learn can be expressed either as a...
... Well, consider the theory of God, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Zeus. Those were made up with no reference to any empirical observations. Evidence of...
... I didn't mention justifying anything. I just think that "P is false" and "not P is true" are logically equivalent -- that is my tentative guess about their...
SF: Thought this riff would be approved of by Hayek. Financial Meltdown: The End of a Bad Era Business | Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:19:11 pm PST A great piece by...
... I think even worse than their (the government officials discussing the bailout) lack of understanding of economics is what we might describe as their lack...
... JE:- Kennith, I disagree that Elliot's criticism is justificationist. If the car is not black then it has to be another color if it reflects any light at ...
... JE:- IMHO, here lies the sands of Post Modernism. The critics of Post Modernism cannot discard truth and falsehood simply because they become Post...
Elliot, ET>I didn't mention justifying anything. I just think that "P is false" and "not P is true" are logically equivalent -- that is my tentative guess...
Elliot, I'm in agreement with you as to what the important thing is here, but I think it creates unnecessary problems to use "induction" as a label for...
... JE:- With regard to reasoning your reply fails to provide an answer to the question. This is because valid propositions can be either true or false....
... JE:- I think the problem this time around is mostly with the deregulated private banking sector. Banks can legally lend out many times more than they have...
... I don't see the value of differentiating between learning something is true vs learning something is false. I think it's an attempt to separate CR from an...
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