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Ah, thanks for clarifying. I was starting to think you were trolling me.

You tell me. I think you are trying to frame the fireman for your own act of arson here. Check out my thread on Popper's swamp. IMO, no one knows exac...

I prefer to emphasize the limited applicability of the dichotomy. To eject it entirely is to eject Popper's conventional demarcation of science from n...

I am reminded of the real numbers being defined as systems of nested intervals of rational numbers (Bachmann's largely forgotten vision.) The real num...

Dawkins expounds and supports a detailed theory of how complex organisms can develop from extremely simple forms of life. So there's no 'simply' invol...

Excellent theme. This is also thinkable in terms of interpretation and fact. As I understand it, facts tend to include interpretations that are so unc...

The issue in this context is how do we know the bridges haven't fallen? Let me be clear. We do know this. Do we explain knowing this in terms of sense...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-belief/#NatBel IMO, 'regard' as used above implies too much commitment, though qualifications must finally c...

As others have noted, a thing can be described in terms of everything that it is not. Difference/distinction plays a central role.

I find that this is often overlooked. Of course lexicographers are just people who go to school to study the art/science of creating these very strang...

I understand the gist. It's roughly equivalent to checking whether Popper's falsification theory of science can itself be falsified. Even though your ...

I'd say it could/does inspire/constrain psychological research (eventually in actions which are not 'just talk', like this or that researcher getting ...

Again, I like this theme. What do we call the ideology that would like to transcend all ideologies? What is the ideal that puts every other ideal in q...

I like this gap that you insert between the believer and the belief. Belief is only interesting if it determines action in the world. If I claim to be...

I imagine a prisoner in a cell. One of the walls is a paper-thin painting of a brick wall.

:up: I like that you stress narrowing as opposed to elimination...and those scare claws around have in mind. :up: :up: That which makes talking worthw...

I think the 'working definition' is what dictionaries offer. The second kind of definition is sometimes called a convention (Popper suggests 'defining...

I like Husserl, and he's clearly pro-science. He sees the problem too, which is the clash of two 'obvious' realizations: (1) there is a world that pre...

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I have put some time in w/ Husserl & I'm a fan, and his later stuff might be said to amplify Popper's point in different style. His earlier stuff, whi...

Both Peterson and Saad have mobs supporting them as well as mobs opposing them. Both are reactionaries, agents of 'the people' in the otherwise wicked...

That quote reminds me of Mach's view to some degree, which features a monistic 'plane' of 'elements' that include what are traditionally called though...

I naturally haven't read the whole thread, but I'd like to interject this theme: I take such a 'definition' to be best understood as a convention sugg...

No doubt they are different thinkers on the whole. Yet it also seems that the flexibility of Popper's system is often overlooked. 'Convention' is a su...

I think that your description of the journey from intellectual childhood to intellectual maturity gets some things right, but it is perhaps romantical...

It seems to me that Kantianish idealisms are parasitic upon the 'manifest image' of common sense. The notion of sense organs and a nervous system is p...