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Article #6956Re: LOGICISM AGAINST EMPIRICISM IN DEDUCTIVE SCIENCE
From: Strich.Nein
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:11
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:11
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On Mar 4, 11:25 am, PD <TheDraperFam...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 4, 12:30 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Karl Popper: "To this we have to add THE PRINCIPLE OF EMPIRICISM which > > asserts that in science, only observation and experiment may decide > > upon the acceptance or rejection of scientific statements, including > > laws and theories." > > > If I were in Popper's shoes... You would not want to be in Popper's shoes, they are a tad misshapen. Popper suffers from the intellectual mallady called indiscriminate dicing. In the analysis of any complex problem, there are two types of individuals, the dicer, who splits phenomena into ever smaller categories until a so-called irreducible is obtained, and the unifier, who seeks patterns of similarities among seemingly unrelated phenomena. The former is characteristic of a brute inefficient approach while the latter is of an elegant parsimonious approach akin to Occam's. If done properly, both approaches may yield useful insight. If done improperly, the former yields to useless detail (such as classifying cats according to what and where their colors are), while the latter yields loss of potentially useful detail (such as lumping cats along with other carnivores). Perhaps Popper's biggest stupidity was his proposition, along with Eccles, of an underlying dualistic nature of consciousness. Such a proposition is not only not falsifiable, but also goes against his original dogma of falsifiability.
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