{"id":6263,"date":"2013-10-21T21:23:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T04:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6263"},"modified":"2013-10-21T21:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T04:23:41","slug":"the-vindication-of-skepticism-aka-skeptical-empiricism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-vindication-of-skepticism-aka-skeptical-empiricism\/","title":{"rendered":"THE VINDICATION OF SKEPTICISM (AKA SKEPTICAL EMPIRICISM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>THE VINDICATION OF SKEPTICISM (AKA SKEPTICAL EMPIRICISM): knowledge grows by 1) negative empiricism, or 2) &#8220;tight&#8221; logical\/mathematical proofs and arguments (not &#8220;loose&#8221; as in social science using naive mathematics), certainly not by confirmatory empiricism. This is the problem of induction in the making. The current understanding of science mistakes it for &#8220;naive&#8221; empiricism instead of skeptical empiricism, largely negative.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/leaders\/21588069-scientific-research-has-changed-world-now-it-needs-change-itself-how-science-goes-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/leaders\/21588069-scientific-research-has-changed-world-now-it-needs-change-itself-how-science-goes-wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151779121108375&amp;id=13012333374\">THE VINDICATION OF SKEPTICISM (AKA SKEPTICAL&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE VINDICATION OF SKEPTICISM (AKA SKEPTICAL EMPIRICISM): knowledge grows by 1) negative empiricism, or 2) &#8220;tight&#8221; logical\/mathematical proofs and arguments (not &#8220;loose&#8221; as in social science using naive mathematics), certainly not by confirmatory empiricism. This is the problem of induction in the making. The current understanding of science mistakes it for &#8220;naive&#8221; empiricism instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6265,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions\/6265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}