Re:Why falsificationism is false
by coldtea on Sunday May 12, 2019 @12:00PM
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>I imagine a big appeal of falsifiability in its early days, stemmed from its opposition to religious dogma. Imagine dealing with someone whose answer to every question comes back to God. "Why did the patient die?" "Because God decreed it." Talking about germ-theory must have been a massive improvement over theology, hence why ideas like falsifiability must have arisen to provoke people to think in more critical ways.
Only better answers than "Because God decreed it." were known and handled, by philosophers and early scientists, even by thelogicians, since antiquity.
And there were tons of nuanced epistemologies (that included practical falsifiability) by the time Popper came up with his idea already.
Only better answers than "Because God decreed it." were known and handled, by philosophers and early scientists, even by thelogicians, since antiquity.
And there were tons of nuanced epistemologies (that included practical falsifiability) by the time Popper came up with his idea already.