Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Notion of falsifiability (from RE: Presentations to the Fifth International....)

2007-09-30 Thread andie nachgeborenen
I am not sure about what is wrong with staying close to the intuitive judgments of science. It is only partly accurate to say that falsifiability has not received any interest among philosophers of science. First, things are more complicated. The question to which Popper posed the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Notion of falsifiability (from RE: Presentations to the Fifth International....)

2007-09-30 Thread Jim Farmelant
I have discussed falsifiability on various lists. See: http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2002/2002-January/82.html http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2004w52/msg00209.htm On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:51:26 -0700 (PDT) andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not sure about

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Notion of falsifiability (from RE: Presentations to the....)

2007-09-30 Thread CeJ
AN wrote this I am not sure about what is wrong with staying close to the intuitive judgments of science. in response to this: CJPopper never really moved that far away from intuitive judgements about what scientists might actually do and believe. --- Intuitive

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Presentations to the Fifth International Marx Congress

2007-09-30 Thread Phil Walden
Ralph, Why are you saying all this stuff about humanity is doomed and there will never be communism? It contradicts the efforts you have made as an auto-didact and to make liberatory material available to other people. True if we want to get from where we are now to communism we will need a