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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Oct 2019
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      Yes, that’s a good point. I’d say that rationality is also not inherent in individuals; it’s a collection of cultural practices, which mostly function only in collaboration. OTOH, to the extent individuals can exercise rationality, we can also exercise meta-rationality.

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Oct 2019
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      Popper’s model seems, if I understand it correctly, entirely inadequate both descriptively and prescriptively. Observing how science actually works (e.g. ethnomethodologically) is the way forward.

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Oct 2019
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      That does reveal diversity of functional roles in the process, which only loosely correlate with formal roles (grad student/journal editor). It’s good to have some people trying to prove something, and others trying to disprove it.

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Oct 2019
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      Afaict, the Popperian idea that you can only disprove things has nothing to do with reality. Evidence for and against are symmetric. Induction and confirmation are routine features of scientific work. They just aren’t ever absolute.

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Oct 2019
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      I feel like I may be missing something here because there are some smart Popperians I respect, but the things they say don’t make any sense to me.

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    6. Tracy Harms‏ @kaleidic 18 Oct 2019
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      That's a shame. As Brian is aware, no other school of thinkers has made nearly such good sense to me, but plainly I can't pour my understanding from my mind into yours.

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    7. Tracy Harms‏ @kaleidic 18 Oct 2019
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      Popper may have overestimated the degree to which his epistemic claims could be prominent in scientific endeavors, but my sense is that people miss the structural simplicity of his core idea. Science is big, messy, and human. The *advantage* of science is none of these.

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    8. Tracy Harms‏ @kaleidic 18 Oct 2019
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      The advantage in science is the symmetry-breaking relationship of empirical incompatibility. I.e. measuring phenomena and having the results be incompatible with an explanatory theory.

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Oct 2019
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      Yeah… this seems to me to account for very little of what makes science work. Hypothesis testing is not mostly what scientists do. It’s not even what’s attempted in many classes of experiments. The story doesn’t explain where hypotheses come from, or what counts as falsification

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    10. Tracy Harms‏ @kaleidic 18 Oct 2019
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      People expect Popper to provide advice on how science should be done. That was never his project, so dragging him into discussions on sociology of science or the like is usually a waste of time and an excuse to characterize his work as lacking.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Oct 2019
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      So… what’s his key contribution, then? “Science replaces wrong theories with better ones” is true and important, but not original or unique to him.

      12:26 PM - 18 Oct 2019
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        2. Tracy Harms‏ @kaleidic 18 Oct 2019
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          His contribution is on the *logic* of scientific discovery, and how leveraging the logical asymmetry occurs in every instance where there is growth of knowledge.

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Oct 2019
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          What is the logic? (I’m sincerely trying to understand here, although tbh I’m not optimistic, and we can drop this whenever you get frustrated with it)

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