New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is Everything Falsifiable?
Ask HN: Is Everything Falsifiable?
2 by neotokio | 2 comments on Hacker News.
If I decide to judge 'believe' (non-scientific, non-falsifiable) as probabilistic function (easy example - Pascal wager) isn't, ultimately, everything falsifiable? Including the most bizarre of the statements, ie. I believe that there are green skinned trunk people living at the edge of Antarctica. Only after I add additional constrains, like time, space, frequency or other, I can truly talk about statement being falsifiable in relation to those constrains. There is also, of course, Gödel. PS. I realize roots of falsifiability are within philosophy of science and I myself try to extend definition from simple and well defined statements to complex and undefined. It's an exercise.
2 by neotokio | 2 comments on Hacker News.
If I decide to judge 'believe' (non-scientific, non-falsifiable) as probabilistic function (easy example - Pascal wager) isn't, ultimately, everything falsifiable? Including the most bizarre of the statements, ie. I believe that there are green skinned trunk people living at the edge of Antarctica. Only after I add additional constrains, like time, space, frequency or other, I can truly talk about statement being falsifiable in relation to those constrains. There is also, of course, Gödel. PS. I realize roots of falsifiability are within philosophy of science and I myself try to extend definition from simple and well defined statements to complex and undefined. It's an exercise.
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