| | I appreciate that that is your belief, Daniel. I am saying that it isn't ours, and trying to help Jordan and others understand the "communication breakdown" he mentions in Post 4 by pointing up this mismatch.
He asked for a test for falsifying the pro-life nature of any act. But Objectivism does not accept the notion of finding falsifiability criteria as the route to understanding. Rather, we say, observe the world and using logic figure out what values are and which ones to go after. The process is not testing for illogic or failure to predict, but using logic in forming one's philosophy on the basis of observing reality.
In other words, knowledge is built not by testing and falsifying, but by observing and thinking. This is Objectivism's view, but Jordan had framed his query in different terms, those of Critical Rationalism, which we do not accept. All I am saying is that this might account for his feeling that his question was being bypassed. I thought if I pointed this out, the discussion of his question might focus more on both sides.
It was really not my intent to participate in the thread. I'm too busy.
(Edited by Rodney Rawlings on 6/21, 5:39pm)
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