RE: falsifying the idea of falsification
April 3, 2020 at 4:19 am
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2020 at 4:41 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:It does appear that some people think that I denied scientific character to the historical sciences, such as palaeontology, or the history of the evolution of life on Earth. This is a mistake, and I here wish to affirm that these and other historical sciences have in my opinion scientific character; their hypotheses can in many cases be tested.-Karl Popper 1981, lol.
It wasn't even so much the case that he thought that natural selection was a tautology, but that survival of the fittest was. How do you know what's fit? Those that survive. Survival of those that survive. He appears to have realized that the issue was not with ns, but with a specific formulation of the proposition that he was considering - which was not the formulation of that proposition in modern synth.
Survival of the fittest is not (and was not) actually ns or darwins theory...nor is the phrase his invention- that would be herbert spencers jam, drawing on a deep well of lamarckian supposition in order to make socio-political comments that used evolution as a metaphysical backdrop. Not entirely unlike our resident jesus-freaks and creationisms ultimate goal.
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