Falsifiability
Feb. 17th, 2004 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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metageek, I argued against his strong support for falsifiability, as I think that spirituality, in moderation, is a Good Thing.
Today, I read the letters column in the latest (and penultimate) issue of Cerebus. Puts me in more of a pro-falsifiability mood, I'll say. Dave Sim has built himself a totally non-falsifiable world view, wherein all things he disapproves of are attributable to Evile Feminists, and the few things in the world he does approve of are due to the efforts of the few remaining Real Men. All the way down to physics and cosmology.
metageek, I argued against his strong support for falsifiability, as I think that spirituality, in moderation, is a Good Thing.Today, I read the letters column in the latest (and penultimate) issue of Cerebus. Puts me in more of a pro-falsifiability mood, I'll say. Dave Sim has built himself a totally non-falsifiable world view, wherein all things he disapproves of are attributable to Evile Feminists, and the few things in the world he does approve of are due to the efforts of the few remaining Real Men. All the way down to physics and cosmology.