[Taxacom] Biodiversity questions: Classifications

[Fred Schueler]

On 10/4/2013 10:26 AM, Dan Lahr wrote:
> Ha, I was not aware that he acknowledged that.

* well, not in those words - but he certainly acknowledged that a 
falsifiable hypothesis could come from anywhere - and "anywhere" 
includes baconian induction. In a sense, any hypothesis arises as an 
idea about existing data, whether it comes as a flash about a benzene 
ring, or only after poring over decades of correlation between weather 
data and road-crossing dates.

fred.
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>
> So it is in fact the wide *perception* of popperian science that defines
> science as only the last part of that sentence, not Popper himself...
>
> thanks for pointing it out FRed.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Fred Schueler <bckcdb at istar.ca
> <mailto:bckcdb at istar.ca>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/4/2013 9:00 AM, Dan Lahr wrote:
>
>      > Incidently, I tend think that applying the popperian definition
>     of science
>      > to taxonomy, as you have indicated, is a bit of trying to fit a
>     square peg
>      > in a round hole.  Popper's definition is too restrictive: exploratory
>      > science is also part of science!  HOw would we come to hypothesis
>     if we
>      > don't know what objects can be hypothesizable subjects?
>
>     * an interesting point - the popperian hypothesis is that "it will be
>     only through exploratory data collection and baconian induction that it
>     will be possible to form a falsifiable hypothesis about this subject."
>     In my experience, this hypothesis is often corroborated.
>
>     fred.
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          Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm
Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm
Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/
          RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
   on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
    (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/
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