Friday, June 05, 2009

Please read carefully ...

... Standing up for what you don’t believe. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

One of the few historical generalisations on which philosophers of science agree is what Hilary Putnam originally dubbed the “pessimistic meta-induction”: All theories of wide explanatory scope in science are eventually shown to be empirically false, usually because they overreach their grasp.

Aquinas was very good at getting inside the viewpoint of those he disagreed with.

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