(March 25, 2020 at 9:40 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:(March 25, 2020 at 1:56 pm)Drich Wrote: the title pretty much says it. with this chinese flu killing trillions I'm been writing scripts and making videos.
OLB already called you on this but it's so impressively bad that it needs more scorn. My condolences to all the greenbacks that have suffered and died.
"Chinese Flu" is imbecilic as it is neither Chinese nor influenza.
Quote:because the term falsification and how it is used in the philosophy of science is being used in the most incorrect in fact the opposite way it was intended to be used for.
Many use it as a panic stop button in any theological argument that is getting out of hand. "well oh'yeah your idea can't be falsified."
Falsification is not simply for science. A statement that cannot be falsified cannot be demonstrated. At that point the argument devolves to:
A: I believe in Fairies.
B: I don't.
A: You can't prove that they don't exist!
B: So you can't prove that they do and until then I see no reason to believe your foolishness.
If your best defense is that your beliefs can't be falsified then my only reply need be, "Well isn't that cute."
Simply because a statement cannot be demonstrated does not necessarily mean that the statement is untrue. God (for example) can be - and frequently has been - defined in an esoteric enough fashion that the statement ‘God exists’ is not demonstrable. This doesn’t determine whether the statement is true, but does make the statement not particularly useful.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
