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Popper criticized Newton’s idea that it was possible to extrapolate generalizable laws of nature from specific experiments or tests, by criticizing the inductive method on which it was based, and turning it on its head. He did so by applying a Humean scepticism towards induction itself, and defining science as a deductive process.
— Nov 17, 2015 05:06AM
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[Wittgenstein's] central claim that there are no such things as philosophical ‘problems’ only philosophical ‘puzzles’ arising from the use of language, and that philosophy was about the pursuit of meaning rather than truth, embodied everything that Popper hated about the self-indulgence of philosophers.
— Nov 17, 2015 04:43AM
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Popper loathed [Wittgenstein]. He considered his whole philosophy to be mistaken and, worse, entirely contrary to what philosophy should be about.
— Nov 17, 2015 04:23AM
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[For Popper, as opposed to for the Logical Positivists], the task was not to demarcate physics from metaphysics, but to demarcate ‘science’ from ‘pseudo-science’...
— Nov 17, 2015 04:22AM
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Interesting- i knew that Wittgenstein had been influentual with the Vienna Circle, but I had not known that Gödel had been a member too. I suppose mathematics would predispose one towards Logical Positivism in a way?
— Nov 16, 2015 04:23AM
