In a message dated 10/12/2015 4:27:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Only a tiny subset of people from Alaska take seriously Sarah Palin's
notes on Popper.
That may be, but as long as her notes are taking seriously by Oxford (The
Oxford Dictionary chose 'refudiate' as "the word of the year"**) I think
Popperians SHOULD take notice.
There's
VERIFICATIONISM, as popularised by Schlick.
FALSIFICATIONISM, as popularised by Sir Karl (as he then wasn't) Popper.
and there's
REFUDIATIONISM, as popularised, originally, by a tiny subset of the
population of Alaska.
Palin's example involved Alaskan ways of referring to the Tarski utterance,
'snow is white'. Unless we know how to _express_ that trivial truth, we
cannot 'refudiate' it, either.
Palin's anti-Popperianism is evident in the examination of the alleged
'hoax' about the many Eskimo words for 'snow'. She refudiates "Eskimo" as too
general a term, and opts for "Yupik". As she expresses in both her
"Refudiationism" "Popper refudiated" the Yupik comprise speakers of four
distinct
Yupik languages: one used in the Russian Far East (and on a clear day you
can see it) and the other three, that Palin does not refudiate, among people
of (a) Western Alaska, (b) Southcentral Alaska, and, finally, (c) along the
Gulf of Alaska coast.
"If Popper learn of Tarski's "Snow is white" on a bench in a famous Vienna
park, Eskimos learned to refudiate bench-linguistics: they know snow when
they see it."
Cheers,
Speranza
** Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year:
refudiate, verb used loosely to mean “reject”: she called on them to
refudiate the proposal to build a mosque [origin — blend of refute and
repudiate].
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