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Month: May 2019

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Hell hath no fury like a Popperian scorned

  • Posted on May 14, 2019May 14, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

My post on falsificationism turned out to be a lot more popular than I expected. I’m particularly glad that many scientists seem to have found it useful, since I primarily wrote it for them. On the other hand, it also…

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Why falsificationism is false

  • Posted on May 9, 2019May 14, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Karl Popper famously defended the view, known as falsificationism, that what distinguishes science from non-science is falsifiability. On this view, a theory is scientific if and only if it’s falsifiable, at least in principle. What this means for a theory…

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The blog is now bilingual

  • Posted on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Just so you know, I have installed Polylang, a plugin for WordPress that helps you create a multilingual website. So you can now switch between English and French by clicking on the little flag in the top menu and it…

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