Faith and science

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com
Tue Oct 5 10:01:26 PDT 1999


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> The philosopher Karl Popper embodied that attitude. We can never
>prove that our theories are true, Popper argued; we can only disprove
>theories, or falsify them.

Which is as good a cue as any for my Reduced Shakespeare Company summary of "The Open Society and its Enemies":

1. Marxism is wholly unscientific because it is unfalsifiable.

2. Not only is Marxism unfalsifiable, it has been proved wrong.

dd

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