Lev Lafayette wrote:
On Sun, April 12, 2015 10:07 am, Rohan McLeod wrote:
Lev Lafayette wrote:
Is that an objective value, a subjective value, or an intersubjective value? Well I would see all values as subjective; though we may share them; Surely you don't claim that the values of weights and measures are subjective?
Of course not; that is quite a different usage of the word 'value'; I am using 'value" as shorthand for ' value judgement'; ie. a statement about how someting should or shouldn't be
But the problem with verification is it is not the compliment of falsification. One fact can falsify a theory (make it false regardless of any further facts); but how could one fact make a theory true regardless of any further facts ? Verification doesn't claim that.
Yes; more sensibly it limits itself to " consistency with the body of facts, thus far'; but naive notions of truth and verification are frequent enough (I think); to justify making clear that science (say) is more precisely concerned with, falsification than verification. regards Rohan