Refutations

It’s impossible to know what’s going on here, as both the reports and Bliss’ refutations are equally cryptic.

Ironically, if you peer intently into Selznick’s Uncle Remus-visits-Wuthering Heights presentation, it’s possible to glimpse subtle refutations of Southern apologetics.

A large part of what is known about the beliefs of heresies comes from the documents quoted in councils in order to be refuted, or indeed only from the deductions based on the refutations.

Hacohen, 2000 Popper dedicated his Conjectures and Refutations to Hayek.

He attempts a number of refutations, including one that arguably foreshadows Darwin's theory, and makes the point that if God resembles a human designer, then assuming divine characteristics such as omnipotence and omniscience is not justified.

His well-known essay on the subject, "Back to the Pre-Socratics", can be found in the anthology of his essays Conjectures and Refutations - The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, 2nd Edition.

In contrast to empiricist-inductivist views, he welcomed metaphysics and philosophical discussion and even gave qualified support to myths Karl Popper: Science: Conjectures and Refutations.

It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.

It was Agassi who first introduced Lakatos to Popper under the rubric of his applying a fallibilist methodology of conjectures and refutations to mathematics in his Cambridge PhD thesis.

Karl Popper, "Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge" (New York: Routledge, 1998), pg 186. Such a model allowed the concept that celestial bodies could pass under the Earth, opening the way to Greek astronomy.

Moreover, since Einstein also explained the empirical refutations of Newton's theory, general relativity was immediately deemed suitable for tentative acceptance on the Popperian account.

Popper dedicated his Conjectures and Refutations to Hayek.

Protagoras is credited with the philosophy of relativism, which he discusses in his work, Truth (also known as Refutations).

Responses to various versions of the problem of evil, meanwhile, come in three forms: refutations, defenses, and theodicies.

The article was followed by a series of supports and refutations in the short space of five years.

This is a continuous way our knowledge accumulates, through the logic and process of proofs and refutations.