Ugh. Please no. That article is absolutely *terrible*. Written, I’m afraid to say, by an old lecturer of mine. And as I said weeks back about it: https://twitter.com/tokteacher/status/1063977287295492096?s=21 … There’s a couple of places to go for fallibilism. Following this Tweet I’ll link to two:
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I think the way Popperians (inc. me) think ideas that seem obviously true are actually false is that they contradict some deeper theory yet to be understood, and that there's always such a theory. So, "my computer runs MacOS" - not if identity ("my") is ontologically incoherent.
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Could be hacked?
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Yes. I’m fallible though! (But besides, my, your or anyone else’s being unable to think of how it couldn’t possibly be false is no refutation whatsoever of fallibility. It just means: we’re fallible. We can’t think of all the errors that might be made. Yet: error is ubiquitous).
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See BOI or Popper. No theory can be proved true. Which makes perfect sense. You've got that, correct?
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It's not a theory in any meaningful sense. Just word play. Is 2+2= 4 a TRUE theory? Is neither true or false as a theory because it doesn't say anything. A Mac IS a Mac OS. 2+2 IS 4.
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Your example demonstrates inter-subjective naming or labeling. We all agree to call that thing WORD. Unless you really don't know what the OS is and you are conjecturing? That is a local theory. It doesn't reach beyond your laptop.
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A theory explains what we see, by telling us something about the world we do not see.
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