[tied] Re: PIE Punctual and Durative, correction, full quote

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

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> On 2006-12-31 12:58, tgpedersen wrote:
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> > I thought he said "Respect the counterevidence"?
>
> You first need some supportive evidence to construct a hypothesis.

Not in Popper's version of it. The only constraint on a propective
theory is that it should maximally disprovable. He was directly
opposed to the idea of supportive evidence, since it proves nothing.

> Then you (as well as other interested parties) look for possible
> counterevidence in order to test your hypothesis. And of course
> counterevidence is also evidence.

The counterevidence is all that matters. This disprovability
constraint is what keeps you from making vacuous theories, not some
demand for positive evidence.


Torsten