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Lecture 3: Falsification, Truth and Empirical Adequacy

Teacher: prof. dr. Mieke Boon

Literature & Assignment: Readings Lecture 3, Assignment 2

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3.1. Introduction

  

Lecture slides:

Slides Lecture 3
(including explanatory notes)

Additional material:

Handout

Socrative answers:

Proving Knowledge II
     

3.2. Richard Feynman on proving knowledge

 

Additional video:

Feynman on Scientific Method

Socrative answers:

Hypothetical Deductive Testing
     

3.3. The Logic of Hypothetical Deductive Reasoning

    
     

3.4. Why do we trust knowledge?

    
     

3.5. What does ‘truth’ mean? [The problem of truth.]

 

Socrative answers:

Truth and empirical adequacy
     

3.6. Correspondence theory of truth

    
     

3.7. Why do we accept knowledge – Truth?

    
     

3.8. The semantic conception of truth. [Tarski’s semantic notion of truth.]

    
     

3.9. Why do we accept knowledge? Why Realism does not work.

    
     

3.10. Why do we accept knowledge? The Anti-Realist alternative.