On 11/16/2014 10:51 AM, LizR wrote:
On 17 November 2014 00:31, Bruno Marchal <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Heisenberg was influenced by the positivism of the time (The Vienna
circles, the
young Wittgenstein, etc.). That was very bad philosophy, and we can say
that is is
virtually abandoned. Positivism is easily shown self-defeating or just an
instrumentalism which abandon fundamental research.
Isn't that the Popperian view - falsification and so on - that David Deutsch is so keen
on in FOR? Or am I getting my wires crossed? If it is, I didn't know it had been abandoned.
I think Deutsch takes the view that explanation is the important function of science,
whereas positivist eschew explanation and aim for prediction. Being falsifiable in
principle is still considered an essential attribute of any scientific theory, but "in
principle" can be pretty broadly intepreted.
Brent
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