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"One of the main tasks for human reason is to make the universe we live in understandable to ourselves. This is the task of science. There are two different components of about equal importance in this enterprise. The first is poetic inventiveness ..."
– Karl Popper
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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Guest post by Nicholas Maxwell
Nicholas has been very active (actually hyperactive and prolific) for many years, now running into decades, spreading his unique views on the philosophy of science and the need to address practical problems more effectively. We met in Vienna at the … Continue reading
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Begging Questions
Presumption — a proposition that must be true if an argument is sound, though not explicitly stated in the premises. Implication — a proposition that cannot be false if an argument is sound, though not explicitly stated in the premises. … Continue reading
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Goodman vs. Falsifiability
Here are some new thoughts and arguments concerning the problem of induction. More than once, I’ve come across the argument that Goodman’s “new” problem of induction can be solved by appealing to degrees of falsifiability. Recently, I came across the … Continue reading
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