Comments on: Falsificationism Falsified http://kybernetikos.com/2005/08/15/falsificationism-falsified/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:30:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Lars http://kybernetikos.com/2005/08/15/falsificationism-falsified/#comment-25 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:32:53 +0000 http://kybernetikos.com/2005/08/15/falsificationism-falsified/#comment-25 For instrumental purposes of practical application a theory may continue to be used even after its refutation, within the limits of applicability: an astronomer who believes that Newton's theory has turned out to be false will not hesitate to apply its formalism within the limits of its applicability: an astronomer who believes that Newton's theory has turned out to be false will not hesitate to apply its formalism within the limits of its applicability. We may sometimes be disappointed to fined that the range of applicability of an instrument is smaller than we expected at first; but this does not make us discard the instrument qua instrument - whether it is a theory or anything else. On the other hand a disappointment of this kind means that we have obtained new information through refuting a theory - that theory which implied that the instrument was applicable over a wider range. -- Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, Page 113 Interesting reading about Lakatos can be found at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9051835639 " rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.johnkadvany.com/GettingStarted/Kadvany_Design/Assets/LakatosPage/Eva_Iszak_page.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> And Poppers other critiques: <a h href="http://plato.stanford.edu//archives/sum2001/entries/feyerabend/" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/src/popper/part4.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> I wonder what made Poppers colleagues hate him that much? For instrumental purposes of practical application a theory may continue to be used even after its refutation, within the limits of applicability: an astronomer who believes that Newton’s theory has turned out to be false will not hesitate to apply its formalism within the limits of its applicability: an astronomer who believes that Newton’s theory has turned out to be false will not hesitate to apply its formalism within the limits of its applicability. We may sometimes be disappointed to fined that the range of applicability of an instrument is smaller than we expected at first; but this does not make us discard the instrument qua instrument - whether it is a theory or anything else. On the other hand a disappointment of this kind means that we have obtained new information through refuting a theory - that theory which implied that the instrument was applicable over a wider range.

– Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, Page 113

Interesting reading about Lakatos can be found at: here and here

And Poppers other critiques: here and here

I wonder what made Poppers colleagues hate him that much?

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