Please, tell me again how Quine's holism was a huge blow to positivist philosophy of science.
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@lastpositivist It showed that no hypothesis can ever be conclusively falsified.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@bowmanthebard Surely more trouble for Popper? Positivists concentrated on experimental procedures altering the probability of hypothesis2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@lastpositivist ...so there can be no numerical measure of the "probability" of a hypothesis.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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@bowmanthebard (subjective probabilities, that is. I realise it would be cheating to use frequentist stuff here! Sorry for bombarding you!)
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