[lit-ideas] Popper that old chess nut
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:25:14 +0100 (BST)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/chess/3622566/How-good-players-falsify-their-own-winning-theorems.html
The marked superiority of a falsificationist approach to a confirmationist one
may be noted and easily understood.
It is plausible that anticipating potential falsifiers is, psychologically, due
to a desire to avoid defeat by evading them - and this may be true in the 'game
of science' also. However, as per the Wason test, it seems that those with
scientific, logic, maths training find the problem in the letter/number form
much easier than those without. This though may only mean that a logical
falsificationist approach, once learnt, can be more widely applied and become a
transferable analytical skill.
Donal
Queening
London
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