On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:50:44 -0700, "Devine, James"
wrote:

>I noticed
>that a major element of Crews' critique of
>Freudianism (in the New York REVIEW
>OF BOOKS a few years ago) is that it can't be
>falsified (following Popper's
>criterion). Unfortunately, this seems to apply to
>_all_ of social science (and
>to Popper).

But as I have pointed out before, not, of course, to
the paradigmatic example of a Popperian social science,
astrology.  Unlike any other social scientists, the
astrologers provide me with twelve succinct, specific
and easily falsifiable predictions every day with my
daily newspaper.

dd

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