Please, tell me again how Quine's holism was a huge blow to positivist philosophy of science.
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Replying to @lastpositivist
@lastpositivist It showed that no hypothesis can ever be conclusively falsified.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @bowmanthebard
@bowmanthebard Surely more trouble for Popper? Positivists concentrated on experimental procedures altering the probability of hypothesis2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @lastpositivist
@lastpositivist ...so there can be no numerical measure of the "probability" of a hypothesis.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @bowmanthebard
@bowmanthebard ... so judging by practical success, whatever the upshot of Quine-Duhem, it can't be rendering probability inapplicable1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @lastpositivist
@lastpositivist Personally, I see no practical successes in that!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@bowmanthebard ... Explaining why something so silly as parapsychology could pass statistical tests is a sort of meta-science success! Meta!
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