Hi meekerdb
I don't hold to Popper's criterion.
There's got to be a lot of things that are not falsifiable.
For example, you drop an apple and gravity pulls it down.
You can't turn off the gravity to falsify it, at least in that situation.
And any one-time event isn't falsifiable. Death, for example.
Actually, Hume discussed cause and effect to some great length.
He said that there's no such thing, you merely observe that something
follows another and assume cause and effect. There's no proof.
There's no real certainty said Hume, that just because the sun comes up
every morning that it will do so tomorrow.
Leibniz also believed as Hume did.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
9/3/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function."
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Time: 2012-09-02, 15:28:15
Subject: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary
On 9/2/2012 9:09 AM, John Clark wrote:
> 6) Evolution has no foresight: This is the most important reason of all.
> A jet engine works better than a prop engine in an airplane. I give you a
> prop engine and tell you to turn it into a jet, but you must do it while
> the engine is running, you must do it in one million small steps, and you
> must do it so every one of those small steps immediately improves
> the operation
> of the engine. Eventually you would get an improved engine of some
> sort, but it
> wouldn't look anything like a jet.
Good exposition. But it's not the case every small step must be an improvement.
It's
sufficient that it not be a degradation.
Brent
"What designer would put a recreational area between two waste disposal sites?"
--- Woody Allen, on Intelligent Design
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