falsifiability Archives - MultiMedia https://www.telework.ro/en/tag/falsifiability/ Știință și filosofie, afaceri online (web design, marketing, traduceri, cărți online, rețele sociale), artă. Știința informației (data science, business intelligence). Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:23:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.telework.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-logostore-32x32.png falsifiability Archives - MultiMedia https://www.telework.ro/en/tag/falsifiability/ 32 32 2257885 Criticisms of falsifiability https://www.telework.ro/en/criticisms-of-falsifiability/ https://www.telework.ro/en/criticisms-of-falsifiability/#respond Sat, 26 Nov 2022 23:42:35 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=111879 Criticisms (Scientific method in the three worlds. ) To introduce this section, it is useful to recall the central points of Popperian philosophy which are conducive to a critical analysis of refutability. For Popper, falsifiability concerns only the logical relationship … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/criticisms-of-falsifiability/feed/ 0 111879 Objectivity and intersubjectivity in falsifiability https://www.telework.ro/en/objectivity-and-intersubjectivity-in-falsifiability/ https://www.telework.ro/en/objectivity-and-intersubjectivity-in-falsifiability/#respond Wed, 09 Nov 2022 08:41:09 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=111242 Before Popper, Kant had proposed a solution to Hume’s problem that also called for knowledge that relates to the world of observations while preceding those observations. The difference is that, for Kant, this knowledge is a priori truths, which puts … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/objectivity-and-intersubjectivity-in-falsifiability/feed/ 0 111242 Bayesian approach in the context of falsifiability https://www.telework.ro/en/bayesian-approach-in-the-context-of-falsifiability/ https://www.telework.ro/en/bayesian-approach-in-the-context-of-falsifiability/#respond Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:40:19 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=111095 Among the attempts to dismantle the first horn of Hume’s fork, Henderson mentions Kant’s approach discussed later and that of Bayes. Bayesian logic is not ampliative: it does not provide more information than that contained in the premises and observations. … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/bayesian-approach-in-the-context-of-falsifiability/feed/ 0 111095 Karl Popper on falsifiability https://www.telework.ro/en/karl-popper-on-falsifiability/ https://www.telework.ro/en/karl-popper-on-falsifiability/#respond Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:20:35 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=110984 According to Popper, falsifiability provides a solution to the problem of induction, raised by Hume, and to that of demarcation, which he also calls Kant’s problem. Popper explains that he was influenced by Kant, but benefited from a different context: … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/karl-popper-on-falsifiability/feed/ 0 110984 Falsifiability https://www.telework.ro/en/falsifiability/ https://www.telework.ro/en/falsifiability/#respond Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:11:13 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=101193 Falsifiability (also referred to as the use of refutability) was introduced by Karl Popper and is considered an important concept in epistemology, allowing to draw a line between scientific theories and those that are not. An assertion, a hypothesis, is … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/falsifiability/feed/ 0 101193 Lakatos on Dogmatic Falsificationism https://www.telework.ro/en/lakatos-on-dogmatic-falsificationism/ https://www.telework.ro/en/lakatos-on-dogmatic-falsificationism/#respond Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:39:54 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=87092 Sfetcu, Nicolae (2019). “Lakatos on Dogmatic Falsificationism”, in Telework, URL = https://www.telework.ro/en/lakatos-on-dogmatic-falsificationism/   Abstract Dogmatic (naturalist) falsificationism accepts the falsifiability of all scientific theories without qualification but preserves an infallible empirical basis. He is strictly empiric without being inductivist: he … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/lakatos-on-dogmatic-falsificationism/feed/ 0 87092 Support and trend of falsifiability https://www.telework.ro/en/support-and-trend-of-falsifiability/ https://www.telework.ro/en/support-and-trend-of-falsifiability/#respond Mon, 25 Feb 2019 08:36:12 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=86774 Popper’s supporters argued that most criticism is based on an incomprehensible interpretation of his ideas. They argue that Popper should not be interpreted as meaning that falsifiability is a sufficient condition for the demarcation of science. Some passages seem to … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/support-and-trend-of-falsifiability/feed/ 0 86774 Criticism of Falsifiability https://www.telework.ro/en/criticism-of-falsifiability/ https://www.telework.ro/en/criticism-of-falsifiability/#respond Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:34:04 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=86729 Thomas Kuhn criticized falsifiability because it characterized “the entire scientific enterprise in terms that apply only to its occasional revolutionary parts,” (Kuhn 1970) and it cannot be generalized. In Kuhn’s view, a delimitation criterion must refer to the functioning of … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/criticism-of-falsifiability/feed/ 0 86729 Falsification and refutation https://www.telework.ro/en/falsification-and-refutation/ https://www.telework.ro/en/falsification-and-refutation/#respond Tue, 19 Feb 2019 06:37:13 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=86702 Dogmatic falsifiability refers to scientific statements considered individually. These can be falsified and, depending on the outcome, scientific theories can be considered falsifiable and accepted, refuted, or can be maintained by adding ad-hoc hypotheses: ” There is one important method … Read More

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]]> https://www.telework.ro/en/falsification-and-refutation/feed/ 0 86702 Science and pseudoscience – Falsifiability https://www.telework.ro/en/science-and-pseudoscience-falsifiability/ https://www.telework.ro/en/science-and-pseudoscience-falsifiability/#respond Sun, 27 Jan 2019 17:19:32 +0000 https://www.telework.ro/?p=86407 The delimitation between science and pseudoscience is part of the more general task of determining which beliefs are epistemologically justified. Science can be described as partly descriptive, partly normative. A definition of science can focus on descriptive content and specify … Read More

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