Re:A Defense of Philosophy (against Paul Graham)
by agentcoops on Sunday December 21, 2008 @02:56PM
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What philosophical problem did Popper actually solve? I hope very much you aren't referring to his verificationist approach to confirmation in science.
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Re:A Defense of Philosophy (against Paul Graham)
by andreasvc on Monday December 22, 2008 @05:03PM
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His approach was decidedly not verificationist, but falsificationist. I do share your sentiment that he didn't really solve the problem "once and for all." I think it's wrong to neglect the context of discovery. Peirce had some nice ideas about the logic of science.