RE: falsifying the idea of falsification
April 1, 2020 at 4:24 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2020 at 4:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I do, sure, but it is important to remember that falsified and falsifiable are not the same thing. If any claim makes a claim such that it could be falsified, it's falsifiable - even if it hasn't been falsified.
Modern synth, for example, is falsifiable. Though it's never been falsified.
Multiple worlds is falsifiable. We don't need to know which of the multiple worlds this world is, if multiple words are, to acknowledge that the multiple worlds interpretation is falsifiable. This, even if we think it hasn't been falsified and is, in fact, true. The problem with "god" is not that it's not falsifiable...but that it is, and has been falsified...but people don't actually give a shit about that fact. There was no creation. There was no flood. There was no exodus. There was no resurrection. The god of creation and floods and letting my people go and pious zombies is and has been falsified.
They still believe. Drich is an idiot. He doesn't know what falsification is or what makes something falsifiable, or unfalsifiable . We can't help him...but we don't need to compound his misery. MWI is falsifiable. His god is falsifiable. Falsifiability has not been falsified, and he has taken no effort to do so, despite how easy it would be in concept.
Human beings are bad at the unfalsifiable. Doubly so when we attempt to use reason, a fundamentally falsifiable product - to arrive at conclusions. The christer nutball is pissed because he's realized that his silly religion fails a very important logical criterion that other competing claims do not fail.
Modern synth, for example, is falsifiable. Though it's never been falsified.
Multiple worlds is falsifiable. We don't need to know which of the multiple worlds this world is, if multiple words are, to acknowledge that the multiple worlds interpretation is falsifiable. This, even if we think it hasn't been falsified and is, in fact, true. The problem with "god" is not that it's not falsifiable...but that it is, and has been falsified...but people don't actually give a shit about that fact. There was no creation. There was no flood. There was no exodus. There was no resurrection. The god of creation and floods and letting my people go and pious zombies is and has been falsified.
They still believe. Drich is an idiot. He doesn't know what falsification is or what makes something falsifiable, or unfalsifiable . We can't help him...but we don't need to compound his misery. MWI is falsifiable. His god is falsifiable. Falsifiability has not been falsified, and he has taken no effort to do so, despite how easy it would be in concept.
Human beings are bad at the unfalsifiable. Doubly so when we attempt to use reason, a fundamentally falsifiable product - to arrive at conclusions. The christer nutball is pissed because he's realized that his silly religion fails a very important logical criterion that other competing claims do not fail.
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