09-05-2016, 10:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-05-2016, 10:19 PM by Thomas Ray.
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secur wrote: "(Popper)Â defeated the logical positivists, but that's pretty easy. His mistake was to de-emphasize verifiability, equally important as falsifiability."
No, it wasn't a mistake. No scientific theory can be verified (Popper was one of the only philosophers to take David Hume seriously); falsifiability carries the weight of verisimilitude for the whole theory.
secur wrote:Â "Given the observations, anyone who's competent can figure out the theory (don't believe the propaganda)."
I don't expect you mean to call the founders of quantum theory incompetent, do you?  Â
I would love to debate Bell from a philosophical point of view.  Thanks for opening the door.
No, it wasn't a mistake. No scientific theory can be verified (Popper was one of the only philosophers to take David Hume seriously); falsifiability carries the weight of verisimilitude for the whole theory.
secur wrote:Â "Given the observations, anyone who's competent can figure out the theory (don't believe the propaganda)."
I don't expect you mean to call the founders of quantum theory incompetent, do you?  Â
I would love to debate Bell from a philosophical point of view.  Thanks for opening the door.