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OK, so why don't you give a few examples of where Feyerabend's theory was applied fruitfully?

So why don't you give a few examples of your problems with Popper's "theory of falsifiability"?

Not quite sure that is the latest chronology, but humans did migrate in the past into places where there were no humans, not genociding or displacing ...

I have not encountered any scientist who follows, or credits her discoveries to following Feyerabend. The opposite is true of Popper. Several Nobel Pr...

You have made various claims, all of which are refuted. Oh, and this scientist saved over 1,000,000,000 people from starvation. https://en.wikipedia.o...

In 1915, when gravitational waves were predicted, what habits had the universe developed, and what were the repetitive observations?

Fortunately, since the Principle of Demarcation, we now know how to distinguish science from philosophy.

"Science reports what is happening"? What about all of sciences predictions? Do I really have to list them? That would take months, but here are a few...

Popper is still at the core of science: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02048

Actually several Nobel Prize winners have attributed their achievements to following Karl Popper, so philosophers can be useful even in science.

If time just is what it is, then why does it move at different speeds at different places? Or are we not allowed to enquire why, because it just is?

The cosmological multiverse is accepted by all those who accept our best theory of how our universe began, including Hawking and the other luminaries....

There might be even more mundane and immediate questions, that science cannot answer, even though everyone thinks it can. Do animals possess qualia? H...

What does the scientific method tell you to do in order to gain knowledge?

Everyone apart from Leibniz and everyone who agrees with him, oh, and physicists who understand indistinguishability and its consequences. Many Worlds...

As I mentioned in another thread, many of the most eminent cosmologists claim that something like this situation obtains: there is an infinite multive...

Please explain.

This question was solve by Leibniz in C17. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-indiscernible/

Do you have a point, or is this just a random cut-and-paste?

Realistically, this is about as close to an argument as you will ever get. Realistically, I might recommend some textbooks, but realistically, you are...

Many Worlds is just quantum mechanics interpreted realistically, like scientific theories generally are, rather than epistemically like Copenhagen the...

No, it's Unitary - always.

E pur si muove If you could construct a coherent criticism, rather than a visceral reaction to the scale of reality revealed to us by our best theorie...

The old argument from personal incredulity. Or perhaps more accurately, the argument from ignorance? Anyway, the earth is not flat and it's not turtle...

Only outcomes that are compatible with the laws of physics are permissible. Also, if an outcome is the result of rational deliberation, it is not clea...

There must be a deeper metaphysical problem, because we know what you are already, we just haven't worked out how to implement you.

I'm not so sure about that. It seems that for inflation to begin, there has to already exist a scalar field with certain properties in a preexisting s...

Really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_that_I_Am

Oops, I forgot about Plato. Anyway, I think we are so used to the idea of a separate supernatural realm, that we impose it on religious texts. I'm not...

I'd be interested in when this "supernatural" dimension first appeared in the philosophy of religion. It seems that Aquinas, following Maimonides, and...

Shame that the PSR is falsified in the Free Will Theorems of Kochen and Conway.

Well, Godel's theorems are deductions from a set of axioms. With a different set of axioms, you are likely to get a different set of deductions. Nothi...

Our best theories are deterministic. They work equally well forwards in time as backwards.

Sure, science can start from anywhere. Its method tends to lead, through a series of tentative decisions towards better explanations, though there are...

I would never commit such a crime, that is why you are given magnitude and direction. It is literally the simplest system though. You are free to make...

I think that Realism underlies the scientific method. The idea that whatever is amenable to empirical testing is actually there and exists. Also that ...

In what way is quantum mechanics simpler than the alternatives?

Your claim that computation is an epiphenomenon struck me as rather strange because I had thought that such effects were strictly non-causal, and it s...

At least we have established that you are neither a physicist nor know one. Let's break it down to the simplest possible system. Consider a particle o...

So, entropy is an epiphenomenon? The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is an epiphenomenal law?

Is a computer program physical or non-physical?

Bang goes the law of the excluded middle! Why do philosophers waste their time on these things?

There are no empirical consequences of Solipsism that makes it distinguishable from realism. It is logically consistent. It is therefore impossible to...

I don't think infants have a clue about quantum mechanics let alone prefer epistemic or realist interpretations. I thought you were going to provide a...

So, how are you going to do that, using the Conservation of Energy alone. Go ahead, give it a try! None of the principles of physics can be directly t...

Thanks for clearing that up.

I repeat, how might Solipsism be falsified in principle? Higher dimension, mysteries? Probably

Unless you are stupid, you would know that you threw rocks at yourself. As for others, well, they are figments of your imagination.

Nope. It is logically coherent, and unfalsifiable in principle. Perhaps you might indicate how Solipsism is in principle falsifiable?

No, it's not evidence of anything. My mind creates all phenomena.