I have made some You Tube videos on critical rationalism, probability and logic.
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"One of the main tasks for human reason is to make the universe we live in understandable to ourselves. This is the task of science. There are two different components of about equal importance in this enterprise. The first is poetic inventiveness ..."
– Karl Popper
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Truth-preserving logical inferences work like a set of russian dolls. One never has more dolls after unpacking a set than one began with, and a doll will never contain another doll larger than itself. The particular dolls that a set contains may not be obvious to the mind (like the logical consequences of a set of premises), but their objective existence is not altered by our ignorance of them. The conclusion of a valid argument is always semantically equivalent to some part of the premises; the identity is just not always self-evident.
Philosophers are forever searching for that doll whose contents are larger than itself It is a futile search.
Good videos, btw. What motivated you to make them?
“Good videos, btw. What motivated you to make them?”
I looked up critical rationalism on You Tube and I was appalled by the results. If you want people to buy things, including ideas, you have to go out there and sell them, gosh darn it!
Here’s my youtube CR vids:
http://www.youtube.com/curi42
Nice work Alan!
Here’s mine on Popper and JTB: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTFcNDJqyts