Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 14
Theory: the vast majority of theories are rejected because they give poor explanations, but not because they cannot be experimentally confirmed.
>Explanations, >Experiments, >Review, >Confirmation,
>Verifiability.
I 17
Understanding/Theory: we do not necessarily have to understand everything that a theory can explain. For example quasars: in the past it was thought that their explanation would require a new physics. But now we believe that they can be explained by general relativity.
>Understanding, >Relativity Theory, >General Relativity.
I 26
Initial state: There is the misunderstanding that theories of the initial state would be the most elementary. No theory can explain the beginning by something earlier.
>Beginning.
I 74 f
A theory should provide justifications (Popper) instead of accumulating or predicting facts.
Activities as such have no meaning.
>Verification.
But it is not the case that theories become untenable by refutation, they are actually already untenable because they are bad explanations.
I 83
Languages are theories! They embody assumptions about the world in their vocabulary and grammar.
>Language of theories, >Observation language, >Theory ladenness.
I 83
Vs Ad hoc-Theory: an ad hoc-theory is derived from the dominant and only supplemented by one of the unexplained additions.
This addition is actually a new theory. There are no reasons for this.
...because your theory, unlike mine, does not explain your predictions.

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