In a past post, I talked about Chiara Marletto’s “deterministic nightmare.” Interestingly, David Deutsch, in this interview, addresses the same question. He uses the example…
Category: Critical Rationalism
This post is a short response to Christofer Lovegren’s podcast episode 28.1: Meaning and Meta-Rationality. Had Christofer invoked Popper’s 3 worlds, he could have discovered…
If you came to Popper via Deutsch, you probably either don’t know about Popper’s three worlds or, if you do, you perhaps have no use…
Karl Popper once said: I do believe in freedom and reason, but I do not think that one can construct a simple, practical and fruitful…
Karl Popper originally spoke of how we might determine the degree to which a theory was ‘confirmed’. This led to misunderstandings of his epistemology where…
Donald Campbell made the bold prediction that all expansions of knowledge will be found to require the Universal Darwinism algorithm of variation and selection. In…
I’ve seen people criticize my word nominalist ‘definition of coercion’ and suggest the TCS ‘definition of coercion as the correct one. The TCS definition of…
In The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch claimed that no existing evolutionary algorithm has yet created knowledge. But Karl Popper and Donald Campbell beg to…
In a past post, I criticized the view that determinism was predictable. Most deterministic algorithms have to be run to find out what the result…
This is a historical post. This is the last of my older series on climate change. I feel I was starting to head in the…