12 ideas
22358 | Scientific objectivity lies in inter-subjective testing [Popper] |
21548 | The null class is the class with all the non-existents as its members [MacColl, by Lackey] |
20752 | For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett] |
22188 | Give Nobel Prizes for really good refutations? [Gorham on Popper] |
7780 | Falsification is the criterion of demarcation between science and non-science [Popper, by Magee] |
16830 | We don't only reject hypotheses because we have falsified them [Lipton on Popper] |
6794 | If falsification requires logical inconsistency, then probabilistic statements can't be falsified [Bird on Popper] |
6795 | When Popper gets in difficulties, he quietly uses induction to help out [Bird on Popper] |
3856 | Good theories have empirical content, explain a lot, and are not falsified [Popper, by Newton-Smith] |
7779 | There is no such thing as induction [Popper, by Magee] |
3860 | Science cannot be shown to be rational if induction is rejected [Newton-Smith on Popper] |
20756 | Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett] |