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2011, The Reasoner, 5/4: 56-57
It is often claimed that the conclusion of a deductively valid argument is contained in its premises. Popper refuted this claim when he showed that an empirical theory can be expected always to have logical consequences that transcend the current understanding of the theory. This implies that no formalisation of an empirical theory will enable the derivation of all its logical consequences. I call this result ‘Popper-incompleteness.’ This result appears to be consistent with the view of deductive reasoning as a process of unfurling the content of the premises; but I suggest that the result about validity impugns this theory of reasoning.
I delve into the scientific realism – antirealism debate to scrutinize one of the antirealists’ primary arguments, the Pessimistic Meta-Induction (PMI). After I find PMI to be lacking and untenable as originally articulated by Larry Laudan, I put forward a deductive-analytical version of it instead. I propose that this refinement, the Pessimistic Meta-Deduction (PMD), is in two ways superior to the PMI: First, it does justice to the history of science by not taking the past failure or success of scientific theories to guarantee their falsehood or truthfulness respectively. Second, it constitutes a more powerful weapon in the antirealists’ arsenal by overcoming PMI’s primary problems. In conclusion, I examine the PMD as an answer to the No Miracles Argument (NMA), one of the realists’ primary arguments. I proffer that the PMD raises very serious objections even for the most convincing versions of NMA. On a closing note, open questions regarding the debate are highlighted.
Despite the criticism of Karl Popper's falsifiability theory for the demarcation between science and non-science, mainly pseudo-science, this criterion is still very useful, and perfectly valid after it was perfected by Popper and his followers. Moreover, even in his original version, considered by Lakatos as "dogmatic", Popper did not assert that this methodology is an absolute demarcation criterion: a single counter-example is not enough to falsify a theory; a theory can legitimately be saved from falsification by introducing an auxiliary hypothesis. Compared to Kuhn's theory of revolutions, which he himself later dissociated from it transforming it into a theory of "micro-revolutions," I consider that Popper's demarcation methodology, along with the subsequent development proposed by him, including the corroboration and the verisimilitude, though imperfect, is not only valid today, but it is still the best demarcation methodology. For argumentation, I used the main works of Popper dealing with this issue, and his main critics and supporters. After a brief presentation of Karl Popper, and an introduction to the demarcation problem and the falsification methodology, I review the main criticisms and the arguments of his supporters, emphasizing the idea that Popper has never put the sign of equality between falsification and rejection. Finally, I present my own conclusions on this issue. Keywords: Karl Popper, falsifiability, falsification, demarcation problem, pseudo-science CONTENTS Abstract Introduction 1 The demarcation problem 2 Pseudoscience 3 Falsifiability 4 Falsification and refutation 5 Extension of falsifiability 6 Criticism of falsifiability 7 Support of falsifiability 8 The current trend Conclusions Bibliography Notes DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22522.54725
Openeness in Critical Rationalism with some suggestions on so called inductive reasoning
Organon F 22(1): 9-20.
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Karl Popper lamented the prevalence of dogmatic argument in philosophy and commended the kind of critical argument that is found in the sciences. David Miller criticises the uncritical nature of so-called critical thinking because of its attachment to dogmatic arguments. I expound and clarify Popper’s distinction between critical and dogmatic arguments and the background to it. I criticise some errors in Miller’s discussion. I reaffirm the need for philosophers to eschew dogmatic arguments in favour of critical ones.
In the Critique of Judgment, Kant defines genius by distinguishing it from science and offers Newton as his paradigmatic example of a ‘great mind’ who was nevertheless not a genius. Unlike a genius, Kant believes that Newton possesses a rule-governed procedure that fully determines the discoveries he made. In this paper, I will argue that although Newton possesses such a procedure for the central discoveries of the Principia, the procedure he develops in the Principia counts as a second-order discovery that meets all of Kant’s conditions for genius.
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