Difference between revisions of "Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Considering Joseph Smith/Paradigm debate/A Pragmatic Approach"

m (GLSBot: Adding headers to all articles)
Line 1: Line 1:
 +
{{Articles FAIR copyright}} {{Articles Header 1}} {{Articles Header 2}} {{Articles Header 3}} {{Articles Header 4}} {{Articles Header 5}} {{Articles Header 6}} {{Articles Header 7}} {{Articles Header 8}} {{Articles Header 9}} {{Articles Header 10}}
 
{{BookHeader
 
{{BookHeader
 
|title=[[../../../]]
 
|title=[[../../../]]

Revision as of 23:33, 14 May 2010

  1. REDIRECTTemplate:Test3

[[{{{L}}}|{{{H}}}]]

A Pragmatic Approach to Paradigm Debate

  • Theories are neither verified, nor falsified, but assessed by a variety of criteria. (Barbour, 116)
  • It makes a great deal of sense to ask which of two actual and competing theories fits the facts better. (Kuhn, 147).

Paradigm choice is a value-based tentative decision (that is, faith), not rule-based final decision (that is, not perfect knowledge).