"To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms of charity."

H. H. Benedict XVI. Caritas in Veritate Encyclical. June 29, 2009

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Falsifiability in the pure logic of choice

The fundamental axiom of purposeful action isn't itself fasifiable, but every single other axiom in order to unfold a theory based on the scientific method of pure logic of choice (subsidiary axioms) has to be falsified in order to test the validity of a theory derived from such axiom. (1)

(1) Confront against Friedman's The Methodology of Positive Economics. Originally in: Essays in Positive Economics. The University of Chicago Press, 1953.

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