Karl Popper - Science: Conjectures and Refutations - Sections VII to X

In these last sections, Popper once again sets out his own solution to the problem of induction. This involves a straw man portrayal of the inductivist as an unintelligent dogmatist, as well as continuous ambiguities that hide the difference between Popper's own position and that of scientific practice. We will see Popper using terms like "accept", "tentative" and "think" in ways that seem perfectly normal, but require a quite special Popperian meaning to fit in his own theory. I end with some reflections on the lessons of critical rationalism.

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[JamesColeman]

Are you sure you’re not putting too much straw into Popper?

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[pactifysoftware]

"A positive test raises our acceptance of the theory" ... according to what metric ? Some subjective feeling ? Certainly not probability calculus (the negation of a theory is not a theory but according to the metric of probability it should have a 1-p probability of being true OR there is an infinite amount of possible theories that can explain the same evidence hence all theories should have probability zero which is impossible). It is such an easy argument from the baysian "i need to have a prior and a credence but I cannot give you an objective metric for how that positive acceptance of theories works". This is the same as engaging in pseudoscience.