----- Original Message ----- From: "ravi" <gadfly at home.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 3:32 PM Subject: Re: Marxism is a science
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Cian says:
> >
> >> Because the statements of Marx could not be
> >> falsifiable, Marxism is not scientific.
> >
> >
> > You have yet to prove your hypothesis that "the statements of Marx
> > couldn't be falsifiable."
> >
> > BTW, is Popper's theory falsifiable?
> >
>
>
> i do not know where you are going with that question, but i will
> take it down this possibly wrong direction: popper's theory is
> not scientific (its meta-scientific) and does not need to be
> falsifiable. of course it has been demonstrated that many
> scientific theories do not (and some cannot) meet popper's
> falsification criteria.
>
> --ravi
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One of the most articulate and 'controversial' physicists in the world today, David Deutsch, is a staunch defender of Popper's view of science. A visit to his website beats passing the bong or thinking about Hitchens etc.
< http://www.qubit.org/people/david/David.html >
Ian