QUOTE BANK: THE FALSIFICATION PRINCIPLE. Flashcards
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. . . Popper proposed his . . .
- Flew (Falsibility is not a criterion to determine whether something is meaningful or not, only whether it has the status of a scientific assertion.)
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. . . Popper proposed his Falsification Principle. Unlike the Verification Principle of the Logical Positivists, this was put forward as a criterion not of meaning but of scientific status . . .
- Flew (Falsibility is not a criterion to determine whether something is meaningful or not, only whether it has the status of a scientific assertion.)
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Die a death of . . .
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Die a death of a thousand qualifications.
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If there is nothing which an . . .
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If there is nothing which an alleged assertion denies then there is nothing which it asserts either and so it is not really an assertion.
- Flew (On about that for an assertion to be genuine, it must be falsifiable) (Parable of the Gardener)
