Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 20:32:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Robert Kopp <iconoklastic-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: PKF: RE: Re: Pooper!



--- John McCaffrey <mrmccaffrey96-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Not being able to speak from my own readings of
> Popper () I'm certainly interested in the
> elucidation of the second of these 'checks'. How is
> one able to check the facts if the facts are
> constituted by the system of thought in which they
> occur as facts? 

Thanks for helping me out. I think the term I was
trying to think of is "theoretical
incommensurability." Our observation of the facts is
theory-laden; we see the facts we are looking for, and
interpret them in the light of our theories. I think
this is closer to Feyerabend's thinking than it is to
KRP's notion of "verisimilitude," which seems more
theory-neutral. 

====Robert "Tim" Kopp
http://analytic.tripod.com/

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."--Frederick Nietzsche
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