(May 6, 2016 at 2:55 am)robvalue Wrote: Is the importance of falsifiability really being questioned?
The problem is that the proposition "falsifiability is important" is not itself a falsifiable proposition. The criterion of falsifiability is justified on philosophical grounds which, themselves, are not falsifiable. It's a point about the self refuting nature of any propositions like "in order for a proposition to be considered true, it must be falsifiable." Falsifiability itself fails this test.