@hippo762 "In reality rational people change their minds all the time." Yes, but only concerning those issues about which their consideration is rational. Upton Sinclair wrote in 1935, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
An astonishing misunderstanding of Popper. Falsification of that theory indicated the theory was wrong about the age of the earth, not the temperature of the earth, and an alternative theory was required, as indeed it was. Kealey's remarks were literally gibberish and I cannot understand how the audience did not reply with a mass wave of face palms :-)
Then I really don't get the point he was making :-) In reality rational people change their minds all the time.
hippo762 10 months ago
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@hippo762 "In reality rational people change their minds all the time." Yes, but only concerning those issues about which their consideration is rational. Upton Sinclair wrote in 1935, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Myrmecia 10 months ago
An astonishing misunderstanding of Popper. Falsification of that theory indicated the theory was wrong about the age of the earth, not the temperature of the earth, and an alternative theory was required, as indeed it was. Kealey's remarks were literally gibberish and I cannot understand how the audience did not reply with a mass wave of face palms :-)
hippo762 10 months ago
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While you may be right about Popper, I dont think that was the point of the example, was it.
pettyfog 10 months ago