Can you give an example? Can I not assume that if B is taller than A & C is taller than B, C is taller than A?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
Lets make it concrete, see here this example Popper gives. Taken from Monnerjahn 2016pic.twitter.com/rxKnodkFaw
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Replying to @JCMaas @BaileyNagy
I think we might be talking about different things.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
Yes, what you were doing there is deduction.
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Replying to @JCMaas @BaileyNagy
Yes, I suppose I was in that example but tennis balls & wine bottles consistently not fitting? I think we agree re: the above.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
And it could hold because this hypothesis was too vague to be useful. We can imagine make a very large wine bottle.
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Replying to @JCMaas @BaileyNagy
We could change the criteria, yes. OK, I'm not even sure what we're disagreeing on any more.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
Ok, here is the thing. In humanities ‘induction’ is used to justify general claims. That is as harmful as postmodernist philosophers.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
And it makes us a minority in our fields. The concl. is that empiricism is false, and that was used incorr. to exorcise science from hum.
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