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Thread #89526   Message #1691846
Posted By: Purple Foxx
13-Mar-06 - 06:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: Edge - What we believe but cannot prove
Subject: RE: BS: Edge - What we believe but cannot prove
Hilary Puttnam pointed out that if Popper is right no no theory is falsifiable either.
This is because all theories have auxilliary assumptions about the nature of things.
He therefore maintains that faced with an anomoly you either jettison the theory or the auxilliary assumptions.