Which mistakes once committed are actually divorced from practiced way of life? From: CriticalRationalism@yahoogroups.com ...
Aaron Agassi
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Dec 1, 2008 8:24 pm
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Angela, What this thread sort of reminds me of are my long lost Ayn Rand days back in the 1960s .. if memory serves. I seem to recall that, at one point, Ayn...
... What actions one takes during one's life is a part of how one lives. If you or Kenneth wants to propose a distinction that only includes certain actions as...
... Do I understand correctly that your view is entirely non-empirical? It is a general principle that applies independent of which societies and cultures...
... On the contrary, I realize how problematic such statements as "Japanese society is such and such." It's too loose a variable to have much value. It...
... JE:- It isn't that odd. What we understand about nature must be sourced from nature (remain empirically based). CR stresses empirical falsifiability while...
... Are you saying you have a different view about what it means to be an American than they do? A disagreement? Why would that be important? Disagreements are...
... JE:- It seems to me that our economic history indicates that even conservative free market economics has somehow equated wealth creation with money...
... Politicians generally always make speeches with obligatory statements about the great character of Americans. For example, Bush will often say, "Americans...
JE>IOW, it is not sufficient for yourself and others to criticize the Federal Reserve and the lack of free market action this institution employed. It is...
This paper is not quite ready for circulation but due to the pressure of work and family commitments, progress has slowed to the point where it will take for...
"Consider some ball game played by a few people of approximately equal skill. If we knew a few particular facts in addition to our general knowledge of the...
... Just a couple notes: Chess players create knowledge while playing chess. They create knowledge during the course of a single game. Knowledge creation is...
... JE:- Matt, Chess is not a bona fide theory, (it does nor purport to say something unique about nature on a falsifiable basis), just a set of rules which ...
... Well, Holocaust denial is so wrong it can't really be described as history any more than astrology can be put in the same category as astrophysics, but...
I wanted to add to what I sent in my other post. I think this might make clearer what I was trying to say. Imagine that there is only a small group of people...
... JE:- A key sentence in this blog is: "much of the value created by internal stakeholders is expropriated by management." The problem with the shareholder...
... FYI this really happened. There is a story about one of the old world chess champions who learned to play chess just by watching his father play many times...
"Karl Popper, Critical Rationalist" a magazine article by David Glasner; National Review, Vol. 47, December 25, 1995. The start. "IT'S NOT what people don't...
... JE:- As Galileo firstly demonstrated, an assumed constant frame of reference is required by ANY theory which claims to be empirically falsifiable. IOW, all...
Popper quoted: 'Friends have in common all things they possess.' This is, undoubtedly, an unselfish high-minded and excellent sentiment. Who could suspect that...
Put free stuff on line and sell masses of other stuff! http://i.gizmodo.com/5137827/monty-python-puts-free-videos-online-sells-23000-more-dvds And the Bartley...
First of all, I don't have the time or access to primary documents to compete with Malachi Hacohen and others in plotting the evolution of Popper's ideas with...
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