PHIL 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White Supremacy, Moritz Schlick, Mathematical Proof
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Looked most closely at different kinds of proposition. **propositions that are false can also be meaningful, meaning lies in method of verification. Beethoven was greater than mozart are not false, they are meaningless g: because it cannot be proved empirically or through mathematics, it is meaningless gibberish pseudo-science is pseudo because it is not testable. Biases, distorted value systems, blind spots, expectations, stereotypes i. e iq being constantly proven to be useless and just as a tool of white supremacy yet people still continue to refer to iq as a meaningful metric of intelligence. Epistemology of convenience clinging to ideological biases and refusing to accept scientific data.
