Talk:Critical rationalism
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- Critical rationalism is not a generalization of Popper's falsificationism (but a kind of transfer).
- Falsificationism is applicable only to scientific theories: A falsification is the contradiction between theoretical prediction and experience.
- Falsificationism must not be mixed up with fallibilism.
- What Popper wrote about critical rationalism (e.g. in his The Open Society) is based on his fallibilism...
- All sections in this article "critical rationalism" can only be understood from the view of an ubiquitous fallibilism. Therefore there is a general problem of justification, therefore his and Bartley's concept of universal criticism even in the non-scientific fields (where no scientific predictions are possible) of politics, moral, social life, and so on.
If nobody has the time to make corrections, I will be glad to do so and to return to this entry as soon as possible.--hjn 12:04, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Popper & Miller thesis is controversial if not invalid
The second so-called pitfall should be taken out of the text as it misleads the reader. A number of authors discussed against that thesis of Popper and Miller (P & M) and showed that the implication of the proof of P & M [1983] was not the same as it was interpreted by P & M (see Elby (1994) and its references).
Andrew Elby (March 1994): "Contentious Contents: For Inductive Probability" in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 45(1): 193--200.
Kayaalp 18:37, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
