Cosmological Certainty - Philsci
... world is such that all theories which fail to proceed from some “simple … unifying idea” are false.3 For theories of this type, even though being more empirically successful than accepted theories, are never even considered by science. This implicit metaphysical assumption4 is accepted by science as ...
... world is such that all theories which fail to proceed from some “simple … unifying idea” are false.3 For theories of this type, even though being more empirically successful than accepted theories, are never even considered by science. This implicit metaphysical assumption4 is accepted by science as ...
Cosmological Certainty
... world is such that all theories which fail to proceed from some “simple … unifying idea” are false.3 For theories of this type, even though being more empirically successful than accepted theories, are never even considered by science. This implicit metaphysical assumption4 is accepted by science as ...
... world is such that all theories which fail to proceed from some “simple … unifying idea” are false.3 For theories of this type, even though being more empirically successful than accepted theories, are never even considered by science. This implicit metaphysical assumption4 is accepted by science as ...
INDUCTION
... - any suspicion that the course of nature may change = experiences are useless = no inference/conclusion “It is impossible, therefore, that any argument from experience can prove this resemblance of the ...
... - any suspicion that the course of nature may change = experiences are useless = no inference/conclusion “It is impossible, therefore, that any argument from experience can prove this resemblance of the ...
Oct 15
... Why reject verifiability? By then (for reasons we will study shortly), scientists and philosophers recognized that no empirical theory could ever be proven. This seemed to take any degree of certainty off the table Moreover, according to Popper, “verifications” or confirmations of a theory were, in ...
... Why reject verifiability? By then (for reasons we will study shortly), scientists and philosophers recognized that no empirical theory could ever be proven. This seemed to take any degree of certainty off the table Moreover, according to Popper, “verifications” or confirmations of a theory were, in ...