PHL246H1 Lecture 7: lec7.pdf
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Cf. the regress argument for skepticism (in nite regress; dogmatic foundation; vicious circle) Cf. the regress argument for skepticism (in nite regress; dogmatic foundation; vicious circle) (cid:73) instead he proposes the deductive method of testing. Popper"s falsi cationism (cid:73) in his logik der forschung (1934) (logic of scienti c. Discovery) popper rejects the logic of induction, because it leads to an in nite regress (we can justify induction only inductively) or to a priorism (we can only postulate or assume the uniformity of nature ). If e is falsi ed, then h is forever falsi ed. Asymmetry: general hypotheses cannot be veri ed, they can only be falsi ed. Asymmetry: general hypotheses cannot be veri ed, they can only be falsi ed. (cid:73) background: logical positivism (carnap, neurath, schlick et al. ) proposed veri cation as criterion of meaningfulness (the meaning of a sentence is its method of veri cation)
