10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNFALSIFIABLE»
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Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of ...
That is, there is a prevalent but bad habit of speaking of this or that theory as
being falsifiable or unfalsifiable. But with a little reflection, it should be clear that
this is not the best way of speaking. Generally, falsifiability is an attitude that a
person ...
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Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory
Karl Popper, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy of
science, was impressed by the apparent explanatory power of the unfalsifiable
beliefs characteristic of Freudian, Marxist, and many religious frameworks.
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An Atheist in the Choir Loft
In doing this he would make us all free. He'd be taking away our confusion, our
doubt and our misguided and at times dangerous misconceptions. To my mind,
the concept of faith is a delusionary burden on people. Faith in God is
unfalsifiable.
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Delusions: Investigations Into The Psychology Of Delusional ...
More recently Walkup (1990) has argued that some delusional beliefs are not so
much false as unfalsifiable, because, like certain religious beliefs, they do not
make truth claims, that is factual claims about states of affairs in the world.
Philippa A. Garety, David R. Hemsley, 2013
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Abductive Cognition: The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive ...
Unfalsifiable. Hypotheses. Found. through. Explanatory. and. Instrumental.
Abduction. In the previous sections I have illustrated that contradiction is
fundamental in abductive reasoning and that it has a preference for strong
hypotheses which ...
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Popper and the Human Sciences
Is psychoanalytic theory testable? Griinbaum roundly contradicts Popper's claim
that psychoanalytic theory is unfalsifiable. He does not pause to ask which theses
Popper might have had in mind. Not even Popper's circumscription of his claim ...
G. Currie, Alan Musgrave, 1985
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Software and Mind: The Mechanistic Myth and Its Consequences
But unlike good theories, which remain unfalsified because they are useful and
make correct predictions, the unscientific ones remain unfalsified thanks to the
dishonest stratagems employed by their defenders: they are made unfalsifiable ...
It may be possible to formulate better ones. Some of the in principle objections to
which I have referred hark back to the accusation that religious propositions are
meaningless, or at least unscientific, because they are unfalsifiable.78 There is, ...
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Darwinism Under the Microscope: How Recent Scientific ...
The danger of accepting an effectively unfalsifiable hypothesis is that science has
no way to determine if the belief corresponds to reality. In the history of science,
the scientific community has believed in any number of things that were in fact ...
James P. Gills, Tom Woodward, 2002
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Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling
Also, with qualifications like “almost” and undefined terms like “obviously simple,”
his hypothesis may be unfalsifiable. Falsifiability is an idea from the philosophy of
science, proposed by Karl Popper as a demarcation between scientific ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNFALSIFIABLE»
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unfalsifiable is used in the context of the following news items.
5 More Things Environmentalists Got Wrong
Global warming is truly an unfalsifiable hypothesis, when evidence against its catastrophic effects has to be accompanied by warnings about how certain we are ... «The Federalist, Jun 15»
Evidence? We don't need no stinkin' evidence!
And the more that people's convictions are threatened, the more likely they are to rely on unfalsifiable beliefs. I spent much of my most recent book, “The Myth of ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
When Facts Threaten Our Beliefs, We Resort To Bullshit …
When we're defending our cherished belief systems against contradictory evidence, we're apt to include unfalsifiable claims that cannot be tested empirically or ... «io9, Jan 15»
Why do we cling to beliefs when they're threatened by facts?
But it seems that people can also resort to emphasizing unfalsifiable reasons for holding a belief. This “defensive” function of unfalsifiability plays a role in both ... «Ars Technica, Dec 14»
Facts? We Don't Need No Stinking Facts!
New research suggests that, if options such as relying on biased sources of information prove insufficient, many of us simply rely more heavily on “unfalsifiable” ... «Pacific Standard, Dec 14»
We Like It When Our Beliefs Can't Be Disproven
Religious beliefs are often unfalsifiable, but they don't have a monopoly on this characteristic. Psychoanalysis, for example, is often held up as containing a lot of ... «New York Magazine, Nov 14»
The Death of Humanism in Our Religionless Future
Mostly we shed falsifiable propositions, not unfalsifiable ones. More-or-less generally, humanity has outgrown the old Renaissance notion of fluid “humours” that ... «Patheos, Nov 14»
The Barrett Brown Review of Arts and Letters and Jail: Let Me Just …
The trouble arises when Coleman strays from the unfalsifiable playground of institutional academia and attempts to establish herself as an authority on actual, ... «D Magazine, Oct 14»
Sarkeesian vs Truth, Part III: Impossible Arguments and Men as …
As a quick note, an unfalsifiable hypothesis is one where any contrary evidence can be co-opted by proponents of the hypothesis to “prove” their point. «GameSided, Sep 14»
In Defense of Theistic Evolution
Yes, this understanding of theistic evolution is unfalsifiable. And that's fine—like I said, it didn't bother me in the least when I was a theistic evolutionist. «Patheos, Aug 14»
