In a message dated 10/12/2015 9:05:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
the term is evasion as in evading falsification
Before reading McEvoy's latest post, I should add that my point was
linguistic.
"Falsify" can be used as opposed to 'verify'.
Now, if we 'falsify' a 'falsification', we should get something like a
'verification'.
Of course the scenarios are subtle, as McEvoy's other post notes. "Evade"
can be read as "abstaining from".
In any case, I was playing with the logic. Let "p" be any proposition.
~p
may represent the falsification of p.
Now
~~p
may be read as the falsification of a falsification.
In classical logic, ~~ gets eliminated, rather than evaded. And thus, by
falsifying a falsification (provided the phrase makes sense) we do get
something like a verification.
And some avoided 'verification' (and its attending -ism, verificationism)
like 'the rats', as Geary would put it.
Cheers,
Speranza
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html