Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

falsificacionista

English translation:

falcificacionist

Added to glossary by Rosa Paredes
Apr 25, 2010 20:59
14 yrs ago
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Spanish term

falsificacionista

Spanish to English Social Sciences Philosophy education, linguistics
P4C = Philosophy for Children and PD = pragma-dialectics.

La segunda de ellas es la necesidad de estar atentos, siguiendo un espíritu crítico y falsificacionista, que si hemos de combinar teóricamente P4C y PD no sólo haya suficientes argumentos a favor de ello, sino también que no haya ningún impedimento o contraargumento de peso suficiente como para que la combinación entre ambas propuestas no sea plausible.
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Apr 28, 2010 15:31: Rosa Paredes Created KOG entry

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falcificacionist

falsificationism
Claim associated especially with Austrian philosopher Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) that science should aim not to verify or confirm hypotheses - as verificationists and inductivists in general claim - but to falsify them.

reformulated Popper's philosophy of science; the falsificacionist method and its central issue of 'demarcation' criteria explained in the first chapter of ...
www.humanrights-observatory.net/revista1/copete1.pdf

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FalSificacionist, of course
Note from asker:
Thank you, Rosa! I was clueless...
Peer comment(s):

agree Donald Scott Alexander : Yes, I see "falsificationalist" and "philosophy for children" referenced together here: http://www.edu.hku.hk/RPGS/profiles/Lam2.htm and here: (PDF!) http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/philosophy/Philosophy...
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agree Marianna Tucci
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agree Kyle Burk (X)
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un espíritu crítico y falsificacionista

... a critical and falsificationist attitude ....

Very much a philosophical and psychological term
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