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	Popperian cosmology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Popperian cosmology also includes Karl Popper's theory of objective epistemology, also known as his theory of falsifiability.
		Popperian cosmology rejects this essentialism, but maintains the common sense view that physical and mental states exist, and they interact.
		Popperian cosmology rejects this for the reason that "downward causation" is not impossible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Popperian_cosmology (522 words)

	Popper and the Philosophy of Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		All science is cosmology, I believe, and for me the interest of philosophy, no less than science, lies only in the contributions which it has made to it.
		Psychologically therefore a Popperian learner has to be not only imaginative but also robust enough to persevere with a problem in the face of what might be severe criticism, apparent rejection and failure.
		For a Popperian however, it is preferable to think of policy, theory and practice as embodying different levels of theory conceived as attempts to solve particular problems that seem in most urgent need of solution.
	www.vusst.hr /ENCYCLOPAEDIA/popper_and_the_philosophy_of_edu.htm (3233 words)

	Atti '96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Perhaps physical cosmology is too new a field for including this kind of historically perceptive scientist-historians, and if this is the case we have to rely on the historians of modern science to provide a richer, more detailed and more critical account of the development of cosmology than the quasi-history now existing.
		Cosmology has its philosophical appeal in common with quantum mechanics, but in a rather more direct and fundamental manner: cosmology is in part philosophical, and the great questions concerning the origin and structure of the world (not to mention its end) has always been an integrated part of cosmological thought.
		Scientific cosmology is less than 100 years old and the remarkable thing is not that there are so many problems, but that we have some reliable knowledge of the universe at all and that progress does take place also in cosmology.
	albinoni.brera.unimi.it /Atti-Como-96/kragh.html (5880 words)

	Demarcation problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Falsifiability was one of the criteria used by Judge William Overton to determine that 'creation science' was not scientific and should not be taught in Arkansas public schools.
		There has been a post-Kuhn trend to downplay the difference between science and non-science, as Kuhn's work largely called to question the Popperian ideal of simple demarcation, and emphasized the human, subjective quality of scientific change.
		The radical philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend took these arguments to their limit, arguing that science does not occupy a special place in terms of either its logic or method, so that any claim to special authority made by scientists cannot be upheld.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demarcation_problem (2176 words)

	Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s
		The year in cosmology ended almost as confused as it had begun, with one exception: Milne had gotten much clearer about his philosophical views, and was applying them to an exhaustive presentation of his cosmology, theory and philosophy.
		Just as some adherents of the ‘empirical’ school tend to regard cosmology as a testing ground for their extrapolations and as a legitimate playground for the geometers, so some adherents of the deductive approach appear to regard cosmology as a purely logical subject.
		Cosmology is a borderline case: since observations of cosmological significance are so rare and hard-won—Hubble's observation of the red shift was one of the first solid ones—it is very difficult, not to mention brave, to tie one's cosmological theory to Popper's falsificationist principle as a guarantee of scientific acceptability.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/cosmology-30s (7591 words)

	Demarcation problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Popperian criterion provides a definition of science that excludes much that is of value; it does not provide a way to distinguish meaningful statements from meaningless ones.
		It is nevertheless very useful to know if a statement or theory is falsifiable, if for no other reason than it provides us with an understanding of the ways in which one might assess the theory.
		One might argue that science occupies a special place because its experiments can be repeated, but using repetition as a demarcation criterion would disenfranchise areas that are at present considered to be science, such as palaeontology and cosmology.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Demarcation_problem (1826 words)

	Popperian cosmology: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Popperian cosmology is Karl Popper[Click link for more facts about this topic]'s philosophical theory of reality reality quick summary:
		Popperian cosmology also includes Karl Popper[For more, click on this link]'s theory of objective epistemology, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Popperian cosmology claims the existence of a third world called World 3, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/popperian_cosmology.htm (1483 words)

	Learn more about Falsifiability in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the philosophy of science, verificationism (also known as the verifiability theory of meaning) held that a statement must be in principle empirically verifiable in order to be both meaningful and scientific.
		The Popperian criterion fails as a way to distinguish meaningful statements from meaningless ones; and it provides a definition of science that excludes much that is of value.
		It is nevertheless very useful to know if a statement or theory is falsifiable, if for no other reason than it provides us with an understanding the ways in which one might asses the theory.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /f/fa/falsifiability.html (2516 words)

	Popperian cosmology Definition / Popperian cosmology Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Popperian cosmology is Karl PopperSir Karl Raimund Popper (July 28, 1902 – September 17, 1994), was an Austrian-born, British philosopher of science.
		He is counted among the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and additionally wrote extensively on social and political philosophy.
		Popperian cosmology additionally includes Karl Popper's theory of objective epistemology, additionally known as his theory of falsifiabilityThe second type of statement of interest to scientists categorizes all instances of something, for example "All swans are white".
	www.elresearch.com /Popperian_cosmology (211 words)

	Guardian \| Katie's universe
		She must have heard that cosmologists have so far failed to account for some 96% of the mass/energy content of the universe - the parts that, after much hand waving, they call "dark matter" and "dark energy", before admitting that they don't actually know what they are made of.
		But maybe she was trying to reflect the Popperian philosophy that scientific assertions are only useful if falsifiable by experiment or observation, and only true until proven wrong.
		Unless Simon Singh subscribes to pre-Copernican cosmology and believes Earth is the centre of the universe, Katie Melua's lyric is not incorrect.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5299091-103683,00.html (299 words)

	Falsifiability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Certainly non-falsifiable statements (such as definitions and logical tautologies) have a role in scientific theories themselves; this is not in dispute.
		The Popperian criterion, however, excludes from the domain of science not unfalsifiable statements but only whole theories which contain no falsifiable statements; thus it leaves us with the Duhemian problem of what constitutes a 'whole theory' as well as the problem of what makes a statement 'meaningful'.
		It is in any case useful to know if a statement or theory is falsifiable, if for no other reason than that it provides us with an understanding of the ways in which one might assess the theory.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Falsifiability (4517 words)

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		On the face of it, such a cosmology would place a finite bound on both the memory capacity and the number of processing steps the machine could perform before the universe ended.
		So, given that an omega-point cosmology is (under plausible assumptions) the only type in which an infinite number of computational steps could occur, we can infer that our actual spacetime must have the omega-point form.
		Existing cosmology does address the issue of whether the universe will or will not recollapse, but apart from that there has been very little theoretical investigation of the greater part of spacetime.
	www.math.tulane.edu /~tipler/tipler/tipler4.html (7890 words)

	Edge: THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2002
		It must be premature to attempt definitive statements in the present absence of a theory of quantum gravity or quantum cosmology.
		This is analogous to following the evolution of the ratio of the atomic-radii to the Hubble radius in cosmology.
		From Poincare's perspective, this extra variable, to put frankly, stinks, but the whole of modern cosmology hangs on it: it is used to explain the Hubble red shift.
	www.edge.org /q2002/q_barbour.html (1574 words)

	Human Knowledge, Reliability and Fallibilism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is well known that fallibilism is one of the main ideas of the Popperian philosophy and that it implies the negation of any kind of reliability.
		Nevertheless, it would be unfair to concentrate the discussion around the meaning of the terms, since Popper always stresses that we should avoid this kind of question and that the main point is always to realize what kind of problem we want to solve (I agree with this).
		I think that these elements are not balanced and that this is partly due to the polemical context in which fallibilism was born and developed and to presuppositions that largely depend on this context.
	www.unav.es /cryf/conocimientofiablidadyfalibilismoen.html (4685 words)

	Laissez Faire Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within fl holes or whatever.
		So you would expect evolutionary cosmology, as certain types of universes were selected for, to give rise to universes that had scientific laws that were invariant under a wide range of transformations.
		That connection between evolutionary cosmology and the theory of objectivity that I was formulating pleased and excited me a lot.
	www.lfb.org /index.php?action=help&helpfile=nozickinterview.html (5933 words)

	Darwin-L Message Log 26: 68-93 (October 1995)
		Darwin-L was not restricted to evolutionary biology nor to the work of Charles Darwin, but instead addressed the entire range of historical sciences from an explicitly comparative perspective, including evolutionary biology, historical linguistics, textual transmission and stemmatics, historical geology, systematics and phylogeny, archeology, paleontology, cosmology, historical geography, historical anthropology, and related “palaetiological” fields.
		Popperians, for example, insist on applying the same model of selection by elimination to everything.
		Popperians are very keen on admonishing others not to confuse the logical problem of induction with the psychological problem of induction.
	rjohara.net /darwin/logs/1995/9510b.html (11881 words)

	Contact movie review
		While it was boring even given my interest in cosmology, there were moments which really enthralled me and captured my attention.
		Arroway's actions at the end, when she is asked to explain her journey, are, in a sense, insulting to the scientific profession.
		While a scientist may believe life exists on other planets, a good scientist will do their best to falsify hypothesis they come up with (in a Popperian spirit), even in a case where all their senses scream that the hypothesis is true.
	www.ram.org /ramblings/movies/contact.html (1342 words)

	Sir Karl Raimund Popper: In Memoriam
		Here, the Popperian ideas of tradition and of the logic of the situation helped Gombrich to explain artistic development in a much better way than those romantic theories which consider works of art to be mere expression of the artists' subjective emotional states.
		Naturally, one is curious to know what motivated Popper in his unquenchable thirst for knowledge--knowledge ranging from philosophy, cosmology, physics, politics, mathematical logic, the probability calculus, music, biology, psychology, economics, history, to the theory of speech and language.
		To this question, one might venture an answer: an insatiable intellectual curiosity with an unerring sense of where genuine problems lie in academic pursuit, and an unswerving belief in the progress of human knowledge.
	www.eeng.dcu.ie /~tkpw/hk-ies/n31 (2122 words)

	Non-Epistemic Chance: Karl Popper?s Ontology
		Parmenides’ proposition that being is one, undivided and ungenerated, is for him an ontological conjecture that opened the way for the cosmological refutation of Democritean atomism with the view of change as the movement of atoms in a void.
		Popper’s cosmology is revealed in the end to be a revised form of Aristotelian ontology.
		The Popperian dispositions and propensities arrive with all the properties of Aristotelian substance, allowing him "to interpret any real state of the world as both the actualization or realization of some of the potentialities or propensities of its preceding states and also a field of dispositions or propensities to realize the next state" (198).
	tekhnema.free.fr /5Caygill.html (2896 words)

	The Austrian School of Economics as a Popperian Research paper . Rafe Champion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A striking example used by Popper is Plato's geometrical cosmology, designed to overcome a crisis in Greek mathematics when it was found that arithmetic could not satisfactorily treat irrational numbers.
		The Popperian or "critical rationalist" rejoinder to positivists, naïve falsificationists and instrumentalists who lampoon the Austrian approach is to explain that it is not a departure from acceptable scientific practice to make use of untestable propositions for some purposes.
		The critical rationalist does not insist that all the premises and presuppositions in scientific discourse should be verified, merely that they stand up to criticism.
	www.the-rathouse.com /RC_PopperPaper.html (3556 words)

	Falsifiability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Falsifiability was one of the criteria by Judge William Overton to determine that creation science ' was not scientific and should not taught in Arkansas public schools.
		Popperian criterion provides a definition of science excludes much that is of value; it not provide a way to distinguish meaningful from meaningless ones.
		It is nevertheless very useful to know a statement or theory is falsifiable if no other reason than it provides us an understanding of the ways in which might assess the theory.
	www.freeglossary.com /Unfalsifiable (2790 words)

	Re: Is Economics a Science
		Simple, you > don't, and the status of mathematics is one of those well-known problems in > the view.
		IMHO the real Popperian considers mathematics to be a discipline > like logic, or grammar, or a map: descriptions of certain relations.
		> I understand that large-scale particle accelerators are used to derive and refine the constants used in theories of cosmology.
	www.talkaboutinvestments.com /group/sci.econ/messages/184239.html (466 words)

	Evaluating Super Realism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the language of Cosmology, a non-substance world can be described by its relationships to each other via interaction events.
		Modern Cosmology in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century has a theory that the physical world is an illusion.
		Cosmology has made a great deal of empirical (experimental) and theoretical progress from the 1980 to 2003.
	home.earthlink.net /~enigl/SR.htm (3429 words)

	The Things We Could Never Know: Philosophy Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We previously drew the distinction between knowledge and formal proof and Aquinas' denial of our ability to prove what appear to be exhaustive and mutually exclusive comological views philosophically needn't be taken as a denial to otherwise know one view or the other is correct.
		More fundamentally, however, there is the important distinction to be made between what we can prove philosophically and a priori and what we can eventually come to know empirically and a posteriori, not infallibly, to be sure, but with significant probability and resiliently withstanding falsification (presuming falsifiability, in principle, notwithstanding present methodological constraints).
		We would necessarily encounter incomprehensible mystery regarding any aspect of ultimates involved in a pluralistic universe but at any interfaces between the universe's unitary aspects we seem to be, in principle, guaranteed some intelligibility, even of so-called ultimates, by virtue of measurable known effects of otherwise veiled causes.
	forums.philosophyforums.com /comments.php?id=13858&page=last#lastpost (4971 words)

	Thomistic Institute 1998: Artigas
		We may recall, for example, the emergence of philosophy of science in the 1920s in the hands of the neopositivists, and the consolidation of scientific cosmology from 1964 onwards as a consequence of the discovery of microwave background radiation.
		The movement towards a 'post-mechanistic' paradigm, a paradigm suitable for 21st-century science, is taking place across a broad front: in cosmology, in the chemistry of self-organising systems, in the new physics of chaos, in quantum mechanics and particle physics, in the information sciences and (more reluctantly) at the interface of biology with physics...
		The last position is represented by a fallibilism of the Popperian type which underlines the logical asymmetry between verification and falsification, adding that pure logic forbids us to consider any theory as verified.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/ti98/artigas.htm (7052 words)

	Geometry.Net - Philosophers Books: Popper Karl
		These statements are in no sense justified by experience, says Popper, even if their acceptance is caused by experience; they are as risky as theories, although in scientific practice there is not (usually) much trouble in agreeing to accept or to reject them.
		One of the notions which pervade the whole book, "verisimilitude", had been defined by Popper in a seemingly unobjectionable way in the 1960s, and verisimilitude was thought by Popperians (including Popper) to be an accessible and legitimate aim of science, given that truth was seen as an important but very elusive target.
		Popper certainly developed interesting and fertile responses to the problems of his intellectual milieu, but it seems a bit of an exaggeration to claim that he solved these problems, or even that his solutions are more compelling than those of any of his contemporaries.
	www.geometry.net /philosophers_bk/popper_karl.html (11674 words)

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