[MD] expanded rationality

[MarshaV]

Hi Mark,

That universal qualifier (all) means it cannot be proved, and I cannot see how it it can be falsified either.  As a hypothesis it is a loser.  I do think one can still hold all knowledge to be hypothetical; hypothetical as in supposed but not necessarily real or true.


Marsha




On Jul 10, 2012, at 5:27 PM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:

> If it is a hypothesis, how do you go about proving it?
> 
> Yet another inane question from the mind of Mark the scientist.
> 
> Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
> Mark
> 
> On Jul 10, 2012, at 10:00 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>> 
>> Hi Arlo,
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>> And oh I do like it, but can it be falsified?  I don't think so…   
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>> 
>> Marsha 
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>> On Jul 10, 2012, at 12:56 PM, ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR wrote:
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>>> [Marsha]
>>> There it is: "all knowledge is hypothetical". 
>>> 
>>> [Arlo]
>>> Interesting hypothesis... 
>>> 
>>> 

>>> On Jul 10, 2012, at 12:49 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>>>> 
>>>> Greetings,
>>>> 
>>>> There it is: "all knowledge is hypothetical".  I've been listening to a youtube audio about Karl Popper, his 'Science of Falsification'.   It's a Popper quote.  Not an idea original to me, probably something I read in the book 'Black Swan' which had many good things to say about Popper.  
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Marsha