I’ll just back out and withdraw my previous statements here. I have already been reading that Wiki entry when you replied. It would certainly take too long to figure out where I might be wrong here. I thought falsifiablility has been sufficiently clear to me to ask for what would change someones mind if I believe that a given prediction is sufficiently unspecific.
I have to immerse myself into the shallows that are the foundations of falsifiability (philosophy). I have done so in the past and will continue to do so, but that will take time. Nothing so far has really convinced me that a unfalsifiable idea can provide more than hints of what might be possible and therefore something new to try. Yet empirical criticism, in the form of the eventual realization of ones ideas, or a prove of contradiction (respectively inconsistency), seems to be the best bedding of any truth-value (at least in retrospect to a prediction). That is why I like to ask for what information would change ones mind about an idea, prediction or hypothesis. I call this falsifiability. If one replied, “nothing falsifiability is misused here”, I would conclude that his idea is unfalsifiable. Maybe wrongly so!
I’ll just back out and withdraw my previous statements here. I have already been reading that Wiki entry when you replied. It would certainly take too long to figure out where I might be wrong here. I thought falsifiablility has been sufficiently clear to me to ask for what would change someones mind if I believe that a given prediction is sufficiently unspecific.
I have to immerse myself into the shallows that are the foundations of falsifiability (philosophy). I have done so in the past and will continue to do so, but that will take time. Nothing so far has really convinced me that a unfalsifiable idea can provide more than hints of what might be possible and therefore something new to try. Yet empirical criticism, in the form of the eventual realization of ones ideas, or a prove of contradiction (respectively inconsistency), seems to be the best bedding of any truth-value (at least in retrospect to a prediction). That is why I like to ask for what information would change ones mind about an idea, prediction or hypothesis. I call this falsifiability. If one replied, “nothing falsifiability is misused here”, I would conclude that his idea is unfalsifiable. Maybe wrongly so!
Thou art wise.