Clearly we aren’t going to agree on whether my question was a good one or a poor one, so agreeing to differ on that, what exactly would falsify your theory?
The grandparent answered that question quite clearly.
You make a prediction here of what would happen if this happened. I reply that that would actually happen instead. You falsify each of these theories by making this happen and observing the results.
I note that you are trying to play the ‘unfalsifiable card’ in two different places here and I am treating them differently because you question different predictions. I note this to avoid confusion if you meant them to be a single challenge to the overall position. So see other branch if you mean only to say “FOOM is unfalsifiable”.
Ah, then I’m asking whether “in situation X, the world will end” is your theory’s only prediction—since that’s the same question I’ve ended up asking in the other branch, let’s pursue it in the other branch.
Clearly we aren’t going to agree on whether my question was a good one or a poor one, so agreeing to differ on that, what exactly would falsify your theory?
The grandparent answered that question quite clearly.
You make a prediction here of what would happen if this happened. I reply that that would actually happen instead. You falsify each of these theories by making this happen and observing the results.
I note that you are trying to play the ‘unfalsifiable card’ in two different places here and I am treating them differently because you question different predictions. I note this to avoid confusion if you meant them to be a single challenge to the overall position. So see other branch if you mean only to say “FOOM is unfalsifiable”.
Ah, then I’m asking whether “in situation X, the world will end” is your theory’s only prediction—since that’s the same question I’ve ended up asking in the other branch, let’s pursue it in the other branch.