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Originally Posted by Sparky56
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Originally Posted by worzel
I suppose it would be more accurate to sum up your position as falsifiable theory => false theory
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Well you got me there, I'm always a sucker for a well reasoned argument. Look, you have claimed that every falsifiable theory has a finite time until it is falisified - that is equivalent to saying that every falsifiable theory is false. Unless, that is, you believe that the actual (as opposed to known) laws of physics change when a theory is falsified - is that what you believe?
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Originally Posted by worzel
"Anticipated fate" is quite a different thing to "necessary fate".
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What?
Popper said that 'falsification is the anticipated fate of all scientific theories',
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I might anticipate rain by taking an umbrella, that does not mean it will necessarily rain.
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and also that 'because a theory is false does not mean it cannot have verisimilitude.'
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Obviously, but we're talking about theories that we don't know are false (i.e. they haven't been falsified).
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Whether or not I agree with him is a different matter, I am merely explaining the logical consequences of this methodology.
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No you're not. You're making an illogical leap from falsifiable to necessarily false by claiming that every scientific theory will be falsified within a finte amount of time.
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"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite." Karl Popper
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The above is the very foundation and essence of this philosophical methodology. There is no escape from this fact!
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It is ironic that you keep quoting that because, whether you realise it or not, you are claiming that we can be certain that all falsifiable theories are false whereas the truth is that while we can never know that a theory is true, until a theory is falsified we cannot even be sure that it is false.