tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post5965857779315706553..comments2024-02-29T03:34:23.190-05:00Comments on Who Were the Sea Peoples?: How to Defend Your Ideology Against All Comersgcallahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-33233750188069385582011-06-20T13:21:37.932-04:002011-06-20T13:21:37.932-04:00Silas, nice write-up on bitcoin.
But not any shor...Silas, nice write-up on bitcoin.<br /><br />But not any shorter than two of the falsification pieces I posted links to!gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-76170303784525962892011-06-20T13:19:08.196-04:002011-06-20T13:19:08.196-04:00"My point is that your responses *in internet..."My point is that your responses *in internet exchanges* simply refer to the literature,"<br /><br />Some of which I wrote.<br /><br />"without being able to articulate its argument, and relevance, with the appropriate level of detail for an internet exchange..."<br /><br />Not everything can be explained in an Internet exchange. Sometimes it's best just to say, "Go read this."<br /><br />Knowing when that is is indicative of a very good level of understanding.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-66145023897996764632011-06-15T08:30:43.488-04:002011-06-15T08:30:43.488-04:00By the way, Rafe, in the philosophy of science pro...By the way, Rafe, in the philosophy of science programme at LSE, Popper and Hempel were presented as the two great figures of mid-20th-century philosophy of science. Both wrong, but still very good attempts!<br /><br />That is still my view of Popper: brilliant try, but came up a goal short of moving on.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-55507836726930820672011-06-15T03:17:59.713-04:002011-06-15T03:17:59.713-04:00Sorry Gene! You find me in the midst of charting t...Sorry Gene! You find me in the midst of charting the extent to which the exegisis of Popper in philosophy texts has gone past the point of writing him off as a naive falsifcationist (using invalid arguments and simple-minded misreading of his ideas). The the post-2000 pattern in many if not all survey texts on epistemology is to leave him out altogether, fixing on the justification of belief as the overwhelming central issue as though Popper had never offered an alternative approach.<br /><br />Some of this you can find on the CR blog.<br /><br />http://www.criticalrationalism.net/Rafehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06278597438041685633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-35676388959185914522011-06-15T02:55:39.996-04:002011-06-15T02:55:39.996-04:00Rafe, that was sarcasm! Go back and look at the co...Rafe, that was sarcasm! Go back and look at the context. Silas was complaining that I couldn't refute Popper in a sentence or two on a blog. I was making a sarcastic rejoinder: Oh, I'm dumb because I couldn't refute Popper in a sentence or two, but it took him several books to describe his ideas, i.e., if I'm dumb for not being able to nail him in a blog post, think how dumb he must have been to take books to describe his system.<br /><br />Popper was no dolt, and I would never describe him as one.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-51131369880859332622011-06-15T02:04:00.160-04:002011-06-15T02:04:00.160-04:00Gene, you don't enhance your case by describin...Gene, you don't enhance your case by describing Popper as a "dolt". He was appreciated by many scientists, both the locals who befrieded him in NZ and others such as Einstein, Medawar, Eccles and Monod who took philosophy seriously and substantially agreed with him. You need to understand Popper's work in relation to the "turns" that he took, conjectural, objective, social and metaphysical.<br /><br />http://www.the-rathouse.com/Pop-Schol/PopperTurns.html<br /><br />It also helps to describe him as a conjectural apriorist rather than a falsificationist, if you want his position in a nutshell.<br /><br />http://www.the-rathouse.com/WritingsonMises/FallibleApriorism.html<br /><br />Rafe ChampionRafehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06278597438041685633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-69607710036572749252011-06-14T12:18:18.694-04:002011-06-14T12:18:18.694-04:00Are you even trying to be rhetorically charitous? ...Are you even trying to be rhetorically charitous? My point is that your responses *in internet exchanges* simply refer to the literature, without being able to articulate its argument, and relevance, with the appropriate level of detail for an internet exchange; and that this "savant" level of skill is indicative of poor, compartmentalized understanding, quite similar in form to the very people you're criticizing.<br /><br />See? Nothing in there about any of your works being both too short and too long.<br /><br />I haven't said anthing so far about your journal articles. (though I'm almost certain they don't convey your ideas as well as <a href="http://silasx.blogspot.com/2011/06/explaining-not-setting-bitcoin-straight.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>.)Silas Bartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09480427306873460464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-62044870014716343482011-06-14T11:49:11.474-04:002011-06-14T11:49:11.474-04:00Hah! Now you're saying I've written TOO MU...Hah! Now you're saying I've written TOO MUCH on the subject, rather than nothing on the subject! Wonderful!<br /><br />And contending that falsification is such a trivial idea one ought to be able to refute it with a quip or two! Despite the fact Popper took several books setting it out. What a dolt he must have been.<br /><br /><a href="http://gene-callahan.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-socrates-dealt-with-annoying-blog.html" rel="nofollow">It's time to stop now, Silas</a>.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-56527959267505978032011-06-14T11:43:55.338-04:002011-06-14T11:43:55.338-04:00Most people don't need to write a full article...Most people don't need to write a full article to disarm one minor confusion on the part of their interlocutors.<br /><br />I mean, assuming they have a deep understanding of the issues, of course.Silas Bartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09480427306873460464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-59497132467428065102011-06-14T11:06:09.492-04:002011-06-14T11:06:09.492-04:00"own words""own words"gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-88039903541087578892011-06-14T10:57:32.993-04:002011-06-14T10:57:32.993-04:00Ah, I bet you meant "never manage to be able ...Ah, I bet you meant "never manage to be able to put into your won words and <a href="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=jour~content=a791290887~frm=abslink" rel="nofollow">publish in a peer-reviewed journal</a>."<br /><br />Oops.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-2699026489022492902011-06-14T10:55:19.475-04:002011-06-14T10:55:19.475-04:00"you never manage to be able to put into your..."you never manage to be able to put into your own words."<br /><br />Silas man, <a href="http://www.la-articles.org.uk/falsificationism_redux.htm" rel="nofollow">shootin' down</a> that <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/callahan/callahan143.html" rel="nofollow">crap be so easy</a> that people are gonna start thinking you my sock puppet that I created just to make my critics out to be fools.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-62355847273793373072011-06-14T10:48:59.598-04:002011-06-14T10:48:59.598-04:00Funny, considering that anytime anyone's reply...Funny, considering that anytime anyone's reply to you contains the word "falsifiability", your automatic response is to say that the "tired" old idea is refuted "in the literature", which, inevitably, you never manage to be able to put into your own words.Silas Bartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09480427306873460464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-42547675944164497452011-06-14T08:42:54.847-04:002011-06-14T08:42:54.847-04:00Well, Daniel, if one had unlimited time for blog c...Well, Daniel, if one had unlimited time for blog conversations, and thought that it would make a bit of difference to put that answer out -- generally it wouldn't -- then it might. But very often the correct way to save time in these matters <a href="http://gene-callahan.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-socrates-dealt-with-annoying-blog.html" rel="nofollow">is this</a>.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-17545180810719586412011-06-14T08:29:43.069-04:002011-06-14T08:29:43.069-04:00Well in those situations wouldn't it make sens...Well in those situations wouldn't it make sense to advance the conversation along by answering the answer in advance, so people aren't wasting time re-hashing arguments?Daniel James Sanchezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08653430203683233455noreply@blogger.com