[MD] Science and belief

[david buchanan]

David M said to DMB:
Try Karl Popper as a starting point, no theory can be confirmed by evidence 
due to the problem of induction, only falsified. I am not saying this is 
conclusive but do you even understand this basic argument?

dmb replies:
How can understand the argument? You have not made the argument. You have 
only made reference to the argument and you have said nothing about the 
relevance of this argument to the MOQ or our conversation. As I understand 
it, he was a positivists at first and his notion of falsifiability was 
essentially a less ambitious modification of the notion of positive 
knowledge. This distinquished him from the logical positivists, but he's 
still a long, long way from philosophical mysticism. I think it would be 
quite a trick to make his thought relevant, but feel free to give it a shot.

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