RE: falsifying the idea of falsification
April 1, 2020 at 6:09 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2020 at 6:09 pm by Belacqua.)
(April 1, 2020 at 5:35 pm)Agnostico Wrote: Big Popper was a huge critic of the theory of evolution his whole life. He called it a pseudoscience and tautology among other things
Only later before he died did he say he accepted the theory though he never believed it or considered it to be scientific
ToE is a hypothesis or a philosophical theory, not a scientific one.
I like the idea of calling him "Big Popper."
As I understand it, though, he didn't say that evolution itself was not falsifiable. He did say at one point that the mechanism, natural selection, was a tautology and therefore not falsifiable, but he changed his mind on that and explained why he had gotten it wrong.
https://ncse.ngo/what-did-karl-popper-re...-evolution
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pd...086/691119
