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Ideas for Anaxarchus, Nancy Cartwright and Karl Popper
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14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification
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Give Nobel Prizes for really good refutations? [Gorham on Popper]
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Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper]
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Falsification is the criterion of demarcation between science and non-science [Popper, by Magee]
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We don't only reject hypotheses because we have falsified them [Lipton on Popper]
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If falsification requires logical inconsistency, then probabilistic statements can't be falsified [Bird on Popper]
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When Popper gets in difficulties, he quietly uses induction to help out [Bird on Popper]
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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory
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Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides]
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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science
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Good theories have empirical content, explain a lot, and are not falsified [Popper, by Newton-Smith]
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14. Science / C. Induction / 3. Limits of Induction
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There is no such thing as induction [Popper, by Magee]
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14. Science / C. Induction / 4. Reason in Induction
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Science cannot be shown to be rational if induction is rejected [Newton-Smith on Popper]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation
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Two main types of explanation are by causes, or by citing a theoretical framework [Cartwright,N]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / c. Explanations by coherence
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An explanation is a model that fits a theory and predicts the phenomenological laws [Cartwright,N]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations
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Laws get the facts wrong, and explanation rests on improvements and qualifications of laws [Cartwright,N]
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Laws apply to separate domains, but real explanations apply to intersecting domains [Cartwright,N]
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Covering-law explanation lets us explain storms by falling barometers [Cartwright,N]
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I disagree with the covering-law view that there is a law to cover every single case [Cartwright,N]
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You can't explain one quail's behaviour by just saying that all quails do it [Cartwright,N]
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The covering law view assumes that each phenomenon has a 'right' explanation [Cartwright,N]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / b. Ultimate explanation
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Science does not aim at ultimate explanations [Popper]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation
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In science, best explanations have regularly turned out to be false [Cartwright,N]
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