This is a historical post Well, we’ve covered a lot of ground in past posts. The problem with this ‘Reason as a Guide to Reality’…
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This is a historical post In my last post, I quoted Stephen Hawking’s defense of Positivism / Anti-Realism. He even goes so far as to suggest…
This is a historical post In my last post I finished comparing Popper and Kuhn and again concluded that there really isn’t much difference between the…
This is a historical post In my last post I reviewed Kuhn’s ideas on how the growth of scientific knowledge takes place. I found that, contrary…
This is a historical post. Note: Perhaps many of you will be disturbed by my argument here that Kuhn and Popper aren’t so far apart…
This is a historical post. In this older post (before The Beginning of Infinity was even published) I actually champion Taleb’s idea that we do…
This is a historical post. In my last post I argued that, contrary to popular belief, science is not actually about observation. Here I wish to…
This is a historical post. I was not aware of Duhem Quine when I wrote this. The Beginning of Infinity had not even been published,…
This is a historical post. The idea of “algorithmic reducibility” seemed “obvious” to me at the time. I’m not really sure anymore. Is that really…
This is a historical post. In my last post, I discussed Scientific Realism vs. Positivism. The conclusion I drew was that, while both are useful points…