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But What If You Verify a Theory That Can Only Be Verified?
Critical Rationalism

But What If You Verify a Theory That Can Only Be Verified?

Posted on March 3, 2022March 4, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In a previous post, I mentioned a partial resolution to Penrose’s challenge to Popper’s falsifiability. But in footnote 3 I mentioned that there was still…

Demarcation: What Does it Mean to Be Empirical?
Critical Rationalism

Demarcation: What Does it Mean to Be Empirical?

Posted on March 1, 2022February 10, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

Popper’s demarcation criterion is widely understood as an attempt to find the boundary between science and pseudo-science. But in his paper “Addressing Three Popular Philosophic…

Are Refutations and Verification Really Symmetrical Within A Theory Comparison?
Critical Rationalism

Are Refutations and Verification Really Symmetrical Within A Theory Comparison?

Posted on February 24, 2022February 24, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In my posts on the problems of refutation, I’ve claimed that within a theory-to-theory comparison refutations and verifications/support are symmetrical. I showed that Popper actually…

There is Nothing Wrong with the Language of Support
Critical Rationalism

There is Nothing Wrong with the Language of Support

Posted on February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

For many years I was bothered by the idea that there was no such thing as verification or support in science. In this post, I…

Do Deutsch and Popper Disagree Over Refutation?
Critical Rationalism

Do Deutsch and Popper Disagree Over Refutation?

Posted on February 17, 2022February 10, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In my last post, I went over Popper’s own argument for why an asymmetry between refutation and verification exists. To summarize Popper’s view: Universal statements…

Popper Explains The Asymmetry Between Refutation and Verification
Critical Rationalism

Popper Explains The Asymmetry Between Refutation and Verification

Posted on February 10, 2022February 9, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In my last post, I discussed various problems (or rather pseudo-problems) with Popper’s epistemology around his concept of refutation/falsification. (For our purposes, we will treat…

The Problems of Refutation
Critical Rationalism

The Problems of Refutation

Posted on February 8, 2022June 5, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

Though I’ve always agreed with Popper-Deutsch epistemology conceptually, I’ve always been bothered by some aspects of how it seemed to handled refutations. Particularly, I’ve struggled…

Deutsch’s Epistemology
Critical Rationalism

Deutsch’s Epistemology

Posted on February 1, 2022January 22, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In the next few posts, I’m going to address what I call the ‘problem of refutation.’ I’ve hinted at this problem in past posts, particularly…

Episode 39: Byrne’s Methodology for Discovering Animal Insight (part 3)
Artificial Intelligence

Episode 39: Byrne’s Methodology for Discovering Animal Insight (part 3)

Posted on January 25, 2022February 15, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In episode 39, Richard Byrne has spent his whole career trying to determine when animals learned to ‘think.’ We discuss Richard Byrne’s methodology for determining…

Things That are Usually NOT Rational Fallacies
Critical Rationalism

Things That are Usually NOT Rational Fallacies

Posted on January 18, 2022January 22, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

I previously wrote about how the rational fallacies differ from the logical fallacies and how rational fallacies are far more important and more common than…

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