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Single Idea 16830
[filed under theme 14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification
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Full Idea
Popper's mistake is to hold that disconfirmation and elimination work exclusively through refutation.
Gist of Idea
We don't only reject hypotheses because we have falsified them
Source
comment on Karl Popper (The Logic of Scientific Discovery [1934]) by Peter Lipton - Inference to the Best Explanation (2nd) 05 'Explanation'
Book Ref
Lipton,Peter: 'Inference to the Best Explanation (2nd ed)' [Routledge 2004], p.87
A Reaction
The point is that we reject hypotheses even if they have not actually been refuted, on the grounds that they don't give a good explanation. I agree entirely with Lipton.
Related Idea
Idea 16829
We reject deductive explanations if they don't explain, not if the deduction is bad [Lipton]
The
16 ideas
from Karl Popper
12176
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Science does not aim at ultimate explanations
[Popper]
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12175
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Galilean science aimed at true essences, as the ultimate explanations
[Popper]
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12179
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Essentialist views of science prevent further questions from being raised
[Popper]
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12177
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Human artefacts may have essences, in their purposes
[Popper]
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7780
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Falsification is the criterion of demarcation between science and non-science
[Popper, by Magee]
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16830
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We don't only reject hypotheses because we have falsified them
[Lipton on Popper]
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6794
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If falsification requires logical inconsistency, then probabilistic statements can't be falsified
[Bird on Popper]
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6795
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When Popper gets in difficulties, he quietly uses induction to help out
[Bird on Popper]
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3856
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Good theories have empirical content, explain a lot, and are not falsified
[Popper, by Newton-Smith]
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3860
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Science cannot be shown to be rational if induction is rejected
[Newton-Smith on Popper]
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22188
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Give Nobel Prizes for really good refutations?
[Gorham on Popper]
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7779
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There is no such thing as induction
[Popper, by Magee]
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22358
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Scientific objectivity lies in inter-subjective testing
[Popper]
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5451
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Popper felt that ancient essentialism was a bar to progress
[Popper, by Mautner]
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18284
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Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively)
[Popper]
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11946
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Propensities are part of a situation, not part of the objects
[Popper]
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