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…
Tag: Ad hoc explanations
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…
I previously have quoted Popper on why we must not use ad hoc theories to save a theory. Popper addresses this multiple times in his…
Having now made an attempt to define what a rational fallacy is and how it differs from a logical fallacy (though sometimes a fallacy can…
While reading Conjecture and Refutations (p. 333) Popper noted that initially Newtonian physics was defended from the results of the Michelson and Morley experiment —…