Posted on June 6, 2009 by Gezu Crankn
Indirectly, through Lee Smolin, I finally get Peter Woit’s definition of falsifiable, which is actually nothing much more than the standard nonsensical nonsense that’s summarized by answers.com.
In Smolin on the Anthropic Principle, Woit says,
[Smolin] gives an eloquent explanation of the importance of falsifiability for a shared scientific enterprise.
I can assume, then, that Woit is satisfied [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2007 by Gezu Crankn
The Trouble With Physics: Aftermath, a review by Backreaction of The Trouble with Physics one year after it was published.
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Posted on July 23, 2007 by Gezu Crankn
From the back cover of The Logic of Scientific Discovery, by Karl Popper:
Popper recognised that scientific theories are the result of a creative imagination and that the growth of scientific knowledge rests on the doctrine of falsifiability: that only those theories that are testable and falsifiable by observation and experiment are properly open to scientific [...]
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Posted on June 30, 2007 by Gezu Crankn
For some current complaints about soft-science:
Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory And the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin
To get up to speed on falsifiable:
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of [...]
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