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Ep 183: St George in retirement syndrome on St Patrick’s day.

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The Importance of Belief in Psychology

In science, the two theories don't need to be experimentally tested in order to refute one of them. Only in science do we worry about this concept of falsifiability and falsifiability is a term. The experimental test refutes that theory. It falsifies it. Not false in the strict mathematical logical sense. We say our best explanation can't explain the evidence. Can't explain the outcome of the experiment, but this theory does. But saying you have to falsify the moral theory is, to my mind, I'm not going to stick on.

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