The Importance of Criticism in Criticism

Deutsch emphasizes the importance of any kind of criticism, and he makes empirical experiments simply one kind of criticism. He would never try to advance his own theory as an alternative to some scientific theory and try to disprove the scientific theory using his theory. This is a not, we're not poppers not claiming that all in empirical theories are always better than metaphysical theories That's not what he's claiming. And it's a very simple convention, and it just exists as a convention because the alternative is bad. If we're allowed to advance non empirical theories as competitors to empirical theories. Now remember non empirical theories cannot be tested by definition. So, the single empirical theory is now inferior to just