[lit-ideas] Re: The Immortality of Popper
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 14:49:50 +0000 (GMT)
"The burial of Popper took place in London. He is in fact, buried in
London."
Apparently not, even aside from whether the Croydon area is regarded as "in
London": "After cremation, his ashes were taken to Vienna and buried at Lainzer
cemetery adjacent to the ORF Centre, where his wife Josefine Anna Henninger had
already been buried."[21 -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
Btw, while asserting 'x' may be equivalent for some purposes to 'It is asserted
'x'', that would not mean 'x' is equivalent to or entails 'It may be observed
that 'x'', certainly not in the sense where 'observability' is a measure of the
scientific status of a claim. Otherwise every claim 'x' would, ipso facto, be a
scientific claim. Whatever Ross said, it does not bear on the difference
between asserting 'x' and asserting 'x is observable'; still less does it bear
on whether classifying something as 'scientific-because-observable' is a matter
of classification that is itself testable by observation.
Donal
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