> --- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: >
>Cian says:
>>
>> >Popper's theory doesn't claim to be scientific.
>> Being
>> >scientific is not a mark of legitimacy. However
>> >unscientific theories cannot take advantage of the
>> >scientific toolset of predictive induction etc.
>>
>> If Popper's theory isn't itself scientific, why
>> should we care
>> whether X is or isn't scientific according to his
>> criteria? Upon
>> what grounds do you decide Popper's theory is
>> unscientific and yet
>> legitimate?
>
>It's a categorisation; a way of dividing scientific
>enquiry from other forms.
On what grounds is the categorization that Popper has us accept legitimate?
>How would you test the hypothesises of Marx?
How would you test any hypothesis about social relations? (This is a non-rhetorical question, unlike yours.) -- Yoshie
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