Originally posted by Palynka
Not really. He's ignorant about what science is. He's still stuck on the idea of verifiability, when it is falsifiability what science is based on.
Feynman is ignorant on waht science is?! Feynam?! Ignorant?! On what science is?! Surely you're joking, mister Palynka! Surely
And please don't go all Karl Popper cause that old geezer certainly didn't have a clue of what science is about. Not a clue!
Dude was all prescriptive and if you are being prescriptive when talking about science you're already talking $hit in my book. If you want to talk about science, you have to be descriptive in discourse and the only prescription you can give is what Feyerabend said: "Everything goes!" That's it! Everything goes! So you can trash your Popper and his scientific method right away.
The nerve of you!!! Saying that Feynman is ignorant about science!!!
[disclaimer] Notice the mock-tone in what regards to Feynman but everything else is dead serious. [/disclaimer]
Edit: I don't consider Economics and Social "Sciences" as a science either. But that doesn't mean $hit. Cause nothing needs to be a science in order to be interesting, hard, useful, elegant and whatever.
Besides I think you are hastily judging Feynman: taking the words he uses (for example he uses the word
pseudo a lot) I think his real point is what he called in other times cargo cult science, voodoo science, etc...
He openly says "they haven't got anywhere YET, maybe someday they will...", he criticizes the fact that we get "experts on everything" and he did the same in Physics, when he says "maybe true, may not be true, but hasn't been demonstrated one way or the other" it seems fairly obvious that he is alluding to the concept of falsifiability that is so dear to you 😛
Sp please bow down and apologize to the spirit of Feynman and read: " Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" in order for you to understand this great man's thought.
😵 😠