[lit-ideas] Disproved, Mister Turner, Disproved
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- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 08:35:33 -0500
In a message dated 3/1/2015 11:11:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Since the beginning of time and creativity, no one has ever put forward a
philosophy that was falsifiable (as they love to say in the sciences).
There is a beautiful line in "Mr. Turner", the biopic on the English
landscape painter by Mike Leigh -- NOW PLAYING --. This Scottish lady, Miss
Somerville, is an expert on the natural sciences, and has a little sermon with
Turner Junior and Turner Senior. I should revise the actual screenplay as
it's so genial, but she goes on to conclude her excellent description of what
we may call a natural law by adding how little we know about them. And she
adds, paraphrasing: on top, nothing in the natural sciences can be proved.
There is silence coming from Turner junior and Turner senior.
"Disproved, only."
I thought she was brilliantly poetic and Popperian. If she existed --and
why shouldn't she (Leigh tends to be very historical in his approach to
things), she may have been an antecessor of Popperian thought and added in
footnotes to further Popperiana.
Cheers,
Speranza
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