On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Strangely apropos to the continuing "Rossi mystery" is yesterday's entry: > > "Verisimilitude" or the appearance of being true or real ... > > http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/commcomm/2011/nov/14/word-day-verisimilitude/ > > The problem of verisimilitude is articulating what it takes for one arguably > false theory to be closer to the truth than another false theory, given that > all theories are incomplete, and thus false in the strictest sense .... > > Here is the bit that is most interesting wrt AR - according to > Wiki-the-wonderful,: > > "This problem was central to the philosophy of science of Karl Popper, > largely because Popper was among the first to affirm that truth is the aim > of scientific inquiry while acknowledging that most of the greatest > scientific theories in the history of science are, strictly speaking, false. > If this long string of purportedly false theories is to constitute progress > with respect to the goal of truth then it must be at least possible for one > false theory to be closer to the truth than others." >
Unless all progress is by inspiration and serendipitous perspiration. Gnostics believe this could be true. T
