Re: [Popper] Re: paleonet Homo ...(evidence of absence / absence ofevidence)

[Peter Paul Smolka <smolka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, John Jackson wrote:

> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 10:02:13 -0800 (PST)
> From: John Jackson <strangetruther@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
> To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: [Popper] Re: paleonet Homo sapiens / H. erectus introgression
>
> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 13:40:16 +0200 (MEST)
> From: "Nikolaus Malchus" <n.malchus@gmx.net>  Add to
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> To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
> Subject: [Popper] Re: paleonet Homo sapiens / H.
> erectus introgression
>
>
> > Hi John and all interested,
> >
> >> As for Popper, far be it from me to warn against
> him,
> >> indeed I celebrate him here...
> >>
> >>
> http://www.geocities.com/strangetruther/pottedpopper.html
> >
 > Overall nicely potted, :-)
> > (after browsing through 1/2 of it, the other half
> must wait)
>
> Thank you - I hope you were entertained!  That will
> make two of us who have read it!  (As usual I must
> recommend his excellent bedside material "Conjectures
> & Refutations" over his almost unreadable "The Logic
> of Scientific Discovery".)
> >> ...but perhaps crystalised Popper is enough:
> >>
> >> Evidence is NOT observation(s) "somewhat"
> compatible

( ... )
>
> The phrase "Peer review" is absent from the indexes of
> the best-known books on phil. of sci., as it is merely
> a method of limiting and abusing the principle of open
> discussion and comparison of theories, for the benefit
> of editors and established academics.  However, the
> word "evidence" is also absent from Popper's main two
> books on the subject!  Might you Niko be in a position
> to comment on whether this is because the word does
> not exist in German?  I've seen English-German
> dictionaries where equivalent translations are given
> but I can't judge them.
>

Thankyou for encouraging calibration of the thinking:

on http://dict.leo.org (e.g. without www) for evidence
quite a lot of German words appear including those which
I expected.

I used however a misunderstandable formulation in the previous
reply (example with Pliocene reefs (absent) in the northern North
Atlantic).

I referred to reefs of the Great Barrier Reef type.

Deep water reefs with Lophohelia sp. exist in that region today.

>
>
> Must stop now, Dr Who part 2 is on.

And what I planned for this evening as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> JJ

Best regards

Peter

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