Ex Cathedra

Bob’s post has coincided with my reinstallation as an occasional writer, so just to test that everything is working, I’ll offer up this quote, from one of my favorite philosophers of science:
In the enterprise of grasping the facts, [judgement] relies on whatever concept or combination of concepts looks most promising, yet it stands ready to [...]

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. - attributed to Richard Feynman (h/t to Leiter Reports)

But perhaps philosophy of science might come in a little handy for scientists and the rest of us when we’re trying to respond to believers a bit more [...]

A proposition is meaningful only if it is verifiable.
A proposition is verifiable only if it can be proved or disproved or can be deduced from other propositions which are verifiable.
Statements that are not verifiable are cognitively meaningless although they may possess emotive meaning. - Krus’s summary of Mach’s logical positivism
That’s kind of a neat site [...]