[lit-ideas] Re: Pfaff on Fukuyama's Utopia
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:51:11 +0900
No, the story of the turkey is in *The Black Swan. *It is not the black
swan.
John
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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> >Credit where credit is due: That turkey is from Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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> That was a black swan (though, and especially at this time of year,
> unscrupulous types may have been passing this off as a reverse-albino
> long-necked turkey). It was Russell who used that turkey who is strangled
> as a sign of the dangers of inductivism; though he did not mention
> Thanksgiving in his analogy, it was otherwise the same.
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> What Russell made of Popper's non-inductivist epistemology is, genuinely,
> something of a mystery and an interesting one - at least to me. He more or
> less sided with Popper against Wittgenstein in the pokers-at-dawn incident
> at the Moral Sciences Club and wrote very favourably about The Open
> Society. But I do not know what he made of Popper's non-inductivist
> account of science and, if he dissented, why. It may be he had more or less
> given up on the whole topic by the time Popper's work was there for
> consideration. Though they did meet and indeed Popper wished to dedicate
> his Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery to Russell. In fact,
> the squabble between Popper and Wittgenstein can be seen as one between
> heirs apparent to Russell's approach to philosophy. Answers on a postcard
> to:-
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> Donal McEvoy
> Foggy London Town
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