Re: MD MOQ and Logic/Science - Petard

From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Sat Aug 28 2004 - 10:59:25 BST

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    How is it that I "know" I'm right when I say ..

    A petard is a slow burning fuse hanging from a grenadier's belt,
    when every dictionary or encyclopedia I can find says a petard is a grenade.

    (BTW Popper's answer is fine, if the question was science,
    which just about excludes life, the universe and everything else.)

    Ian
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Mark Steven Heyman" <markheyman@infoproconsulting.com>
    To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 4:20 PM
    Subject: Re: MD MOQ and Logic/Science

    > On 23 Aug 2004 at 9:57, Platt Holden wrote:
    > A problem with Popper's idea of falsification that it doesn't work
    > when applied to his theory of falsification. In other words, his own
    > theory isn't falsifiable. Thus, it is as non-scientific and as
    > questionable as religious "theories."
    >
    > Popper's theory is hoisted on its own petard.
    >
    >
    > msh says:
    > Platt, you've just shown it to be falsifiable.
    >
    > Seriously, the circular vertigo you're experiencing is because you
    > think he's claiming that his idea is scientific. He's not, and it
    > isn't. It's a philosophical idea ABOUT science. It's meta-science.
    >
    > Furthermore, I forbid you to use the "petard" image unless you can
    > tell me whence it comes. No fair looking it up...
    >
    > Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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