Re: Popper's Science: inductionism, foundationalism, justif.....

--- In [email protected], David Deutsch wrote:
>
>
> On 23 Apr 2013, at 19:31, hibbsa hibbsa@... wrote:
>
> > --- In [email protected], David Deutsch david.deutsch@ wrote:
> >>
> >> On 23 Apr 2013, at 10:28, hibbsa hibbsa@ wrote:
> >>
> >>> Building on the theme Popper misassigned the philosophical fragments of
> >>> scientists with the status of broadsweeping proxies for Science itself.
> >>
> >> What are "philosophical fragments of scientists".
> >
> > just meant the philosophical efforts Popper focused on...i.e. inductivism, foundationalism, justif..etc
>
> So you meant:
>
> "Popper misassigned inductivism, foundationalism, justif..etc with the status of broadsweeping proxies for Science itself"
>
> ?
>
> -- David Deutsch
>

Yes, well...as a philosophy of science from which the suite of traits
defining its manifestation is inferrable.

What does seem possible is a backward inference from that suite of
traits to the philosophy of science it corresponds to.