[lit-ideas] Re: Witters on the table of falsehood
- From: "Donal McEvoy" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "donalmcevoyuk" for DMARC)
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 03:46:37 +0000 (UTC)
Popper would require what he calls
PTE
Principle of total evidence>
I've read some Popper and I don't recall him ever using the term "Principle of
total evidence". Of course my reading is not the total evidence, so perhaps JLS
can point us to where Popper uses the term?
DBreath bated
From: Luigi Speranza <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2016, 0:09
Subject: [lit-ideas] Witters on the table of falsehood
On Jun 20, 2016, at 5:40 PM, Donal McEvoy (Redacted sender "donalmcevoyuk" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Team P GD Pts 1Wales 3362England 3153Slovakia 3044Russia 3-4 1
While indeed Witters is credited with inventing the table of falsehood, Popper
would hardly say this is something we _know_.
Popper would require what he calls
PTE
Principle of total evidence
For all we know (not much, I fear), the table of falsehood may have been
invented by Martians zillion years ago when Mars was inhabitated by Martians.
Popper may argue is that we _know_ *Grice* didn't invent them (a falsification).
This begs a question.
There was a recen polemic whether the son 'Stairway to Heaven' by Led Zeppelin
was plagiarized.
This Popperian argument equivocates on the meaning of 'invent' since there is
nothing in the SENSE (only the implicature) of "invent" that has
i. Whitehead invented the iota operator.
and
ii. Russell invented the iota operator.
as a contradictio in terminis.
Cheers
Speranza
Other related posts: