In a message dated 4/14/2016 1:06:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, McEvoy
writes: "what is the independent measure for whether we have a definition or
not?"
Well, if a proposition of the form
S is P
can be understood in terms of 'genus proximum' and 'differentia specifica',
that would be an independent measure. Popper sees 'scientific' as applied
to 'theory' (genus proximum) and provides a 'differentia specifica': the
theory is falsifiable.
A theory is scientific iff it is falsifiable.
Other philosophers of science are never so clear!
Cheers,
Speranza
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