Falsificationism falsifies itself: it is a theory scientists refuse to abandon despite mountains of observations that falsify it
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(Falsificationism is the theory that scientists abandon a theory when they find evidence against it. This essentially never happens.)
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Replying to @Meaningness
Humors, ether, racism, exorcism, power pose... list of falsified theories seems endless....
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Replying to @mkevane
Each was displaced by a better theory, not abandoned as soon as the first anomaly was found. (Power pose being maybe an exception!)
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Replying to @Meaningness
That seems like an odd version of falsifiability, as if science and social science were not messy and complex....
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Replying to @mkevane
Say more? Not sure I follow. (Seems that it’s exactly because of messiness that falsificationism can’t be right!)
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Replying to @Meaningness
Falsifiability is a broad claim about a tendency of a large group of humans engaged 1/n
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Replying to @mkevane @Meaningness
A shared discursive enterprise... it isn’t true or not true, it is more or less characteristic of the group 2/n
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Replying to @mkevane
I think you may be conflating “falsifiability” with “falsificationism”? Not the same thing
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Replying to @Meaningness @mkevane
…although there is a historical connection…
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Actual issue is whether a group is open to the possibility of adopting an alternative theory.
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Replying to @Meaningness @mkevane
The grounds on which an epistemologically sane group considers and eventually adopts a better theory are complex, >
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Replying to @Meaningness @mkevane
> and are, empirically, not well-described by falsificationism.
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