Positivism vs Realism

[James Francis Lyons-Weiler]

>       Your conclusion is a non-sequitur; so even when there is
>       no remarkable congruence, you're going to talk about it
>       anyway? (Remarkable in the Popperian sense).

you mean remarkable in a Lyons-Weiler sense! - its your test, based
on your theory, or do you  mean to claim that RASA=truth?

        Hardly.  Significance testing requires external validity,
        and some mundane distributional assumptions, but
        not truth.  Truth is restricted to the binary case
        (1 or 0); estimation by significance testing is based
        on probability with a small p.

        James LW

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