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I accuse you of poor reading comprehension because I have been responding to your arguments, and you never seem to understand the responses. You are m...

I also don't require it, I only permit it, so it sounds like we agree.

If I said the thing that you just said, I'd be wrong? What I said was: And you said: Sounds like the same thing to me. Can you please elaborate on thi...

Pretty much the whole process you describe is consistent with the approach I advocate, as I already said to Srap when he said similar things earlier. ...

Why do those observations not equally lend support to the other theories that are just as consistent with them? I suspect you can actually provide an ...

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Which is to say, beliefs that have survived many potential falsifications. Let P = "the face on Mars is artificial" Let Q = "there are tool marks on t...

I consider that a good (but not complete) reason to disbelieve something. You probably shouldn’t believe things that are probably false. I’ve said abo...

Just confirmationism, not verificationism as in the Positivists. Confirmationism is something broader (as in less specific, less comprehensive) than v...

I’m refuting the thing that’s called “confirmationism” in distinction from “falsificationism”. If that’s not the thing that you support, then that’s g...

Yes, I get that, and like I said in my last post, "That falsification only gives probabilistic support to the contrary doesn't change that seeing some...

You've been saying over and over that seeing something predicted by a theory (or belief, etc) gives at least probabilistic support to the theory. That...

If the premises of the argument are only probable, not certain (which, as you say, is true), then the valid form of argument can give probablistic sup...

Nothing is better than heavenly bliss. But a ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore a ham sandwich is better than heavenly bliss?

Or before birth, filling the world with nobody but perfect saints and heroes who do no wrong, not because they can’t, but because they wouldn’t, they’...

I for one am happy to hear attacks on Biden and the Democratic mainstream from the left as Streetlight here is doing, so long as the upshot of it isn’...

Because you're not seeing the different issue at hand, and only focusing on the one that you think I'm talking about, but I'm not. I don't actually di...

Sure, because natural rocks would not have tool marks, so we can falsify that they are natural, leaving non-natural, i.e. modified, artificial, whatev...

It’s not a completely different automobile, but your automobile is now different than it was before.

Things can be more inaccurate or less inaccurate, but they are either accurate (completely) or inaccurate (to some degree). Being inaccurate is the sa...

Making a difference to a part of a thing makes a difference to that thing.

Individuals are part of the world.

A principle is established in the Constitution, but other less formal principles are established through other means, including mere tradition, or sel...

If it weren't for, you know... all the dire practical consequences of Trump refusing to concede... I'd be eagerly looking forward to seeing him forcib...

You got the first half right, but the second half wrong. It's trivially easy to show a model to be inaccurate. I'm sidestepping all the complex Quinea...

It absolutely does. That's what falseness is: not being an accurate model of reality. If NM was correct, we would expect there would be some previousl...

To differentiate the merits of different theories. The cases where confirmation seems to work, the ones Janus has been giving at least, are cases wher...

This fundamentally misunderstands falsification. One theory does not falsify another. Observations falsify theories. And showing an inaccuracy of one ...

To say it’s not correct is to say that some observations one would expect on account of it are contrary to the observations that are actively had. For...

Yeah, that's what I meant. ("Theory" and "belief" are being used as rough synonyms here, along with "model" or "hypothesis"). Only a (wholly impractic...

The whole picture of NM. Which is not to say every piece of the picture, but the conjunction of all of the pieces together. (The negation of a conjunc...

No, the value of a theory is mostly in its explanatory framework, the way it allows us to abstract patterns in many many observations into simple easy...

That theory is useful in guiding what observations to make doesn't change that the usefulness of the observations in turn is in differentiating which ...

Sure, I agree with that, and I’m not at all advocating that we go without theory in any way.

I agree that finding a theory to continue passing potential falsifications is a surprising thing — like “wow this is working out surprisingly well, go...

The difference is that the Reps had already established a principle about “too close to the election” that had denied the Dems their rightful appointm...

They never predict all of the exact same things (else they would be exactly equivalent, different formulations of the same thing), but there is usuall...

I'm not saying you said that, I'm pointing that out as the problematic scenario that demonstrates why confirmationism doesn't work. If the predictions...

I think it's a normal (both as in common and as in correct) process for understanding to become more "fossilized" over time, at least in one sense, as...

The problem with the SC vacancies issue is hypocrisy on the part of the Republicans. Normal procedure was that when a justice dies the president appoi...

I've felt very discouraged in a similar vein to this from people on this forum regarding the creation of philosophy, not music. Like an attitude of "h...

It has been settled by falsificationist methods: the alternatives have been shown false or at least much less likely or less parsimonious. Things are ...

This is a purely semantic disagreement that has no bearing on the substance of anything. (I'm curious, since you're a working psychologist, do you dif...

I’m not talking about categorical or not, nor about particular atomic statement at all. I’m talking about how experiences in agreement with your (enti...

I find that people generally tend to follow that as well, but only until it becomes inconvenient for them, and they often switch to the alternatives w...

A blank space on the page, not saying anything at all, isn't the same thing as denying everything that could possibly be written in there. The default...

Which should be proportional to that destruction, no? So if you do something destructive to others that's easily fixed, even if only because of modern...

I agree with all of that already, the comment of mine you're responding to was just a narrow response to Bookworm's conundrum in a scenario where we d...

As I said above, I don’t actually support retributive punishments at all, but if it’s a question as to which is worse for the criminals, just let them...

(Aside from the problems with retributive justice in general...) Make it optional and let them decide? Stay in this cage for 5 years or get flogged an...