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falsificacionista

English translation: falcificacionist


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Spanish term or phrase:falsificacionista
English translation:falcificacionist
Entered by: Rosa Paredes
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20:59 Apr 25, 2010
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Philosophy / education, linguistics
Spanish term or phrase: falsificacionista
P4C = Philosophy for Children and PD = pragma-dialectics.

La segunda de ellas es la necesidad de estar atentos, siguiendo un espíritu crítico y falsificacionista, que si hemos de combinar teóricamente P4C y PD no sólo haya suficientes argumentos a favor de ello, sino también que no haya ningún impedimento o contraargumento de peso suficiente como para que la combinación entre ambas propuestas no sea plausible.
Patricia Rosas
United States
Local time: 22:18
falcificacionist
Explanation:
falsificationism
Claim associated especially with Austrian philosopher Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) that science should aim not to verify or confirm hypotheses - as verificationists and inductivists in general claim - but to falsify them.

reformulated Popper's philosophy of science; the falsificacionist method and its central issue of 'demarcation' criteria explained in the first chapter of ...
www.humanrights-observatory.net/revista1/copete1.pdf

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FalSificacionist, of course
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Rosa Paredes
Canada
Local time: 22:18
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Thank you, Rosa!
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5 +3falcificacionist
Rosa Paredes
4un espíritu crítico y falsificacionista
InfoMarex


  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
falcificacionist


Explanation:
falsificationism
Claim associated especially with Austrian philosopher Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) that science should aim not to verify or confirm hypotheses - as verificationists and inductivists in general claim - but to falsify them.

reformulated Popper's philosophy of science; the falsificacionist method and its central issue of 'demarcation' criteria explained in the first chapter of ...
www.humanrights-observatory.net/revista1/copete1.pdf

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Note added at 11 mins (2010-04-25 21:10:46 GMT)
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FalSificacionist, of course

Rosa Paredes
Canada
Local time: 22:18
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you, Rosa!
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Asker: Thank you, Rosa! I was clueless...


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agree  Scott Alexander: Yes, I see "falsificationalist" and "philosophy for children" referenced together here: http://www.edu.hku.hk/RPGS/profiles/Lam2.htm and here: (PDF!) http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/philosophy/Philosophy...
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agree  Marianna Tucci
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agree  Kyle Burk
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un espíritu crítico y falsificacionista


Explanation:
... a critical and falsificationist attitude ....

Very much a philosophical and psychological term

InfoMarex
Ireland
Local time: 06:18
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Apr 28, 2010 - Changes made by Rosa Paredes:
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