Karl Popper's Falsification

sounds exactly like how feminists or leftist black activists counter women and black people who oppose their ideologies - that their opponents have "internalized misogyny/racism". if you agree with us, it proves we're right. if you oppose us, it proves we're right. how unfalsifiably marxist eh?

isnt that just stress test? Doesnt falsification mean that we are trying to deceive someone by changing something?

Karl popper get to the Chopper😂

It's pretty much the same problem with people claiming to prove the existence of god

I don't know you or what you've been through, but you matter. I grew up in church always hearing about God but I decided to do my own thing. Smoking weed and chasing girls, among other things. I did it for years and I was depressed for years..but one day a little while after being arrested and not even touching weed for a while, I lost control of my body. While still being fully conscious, God started speaking to me and He said "follow me or die." He scared me straight, for years I had the opportunity to accept Jesus as Lord but I never did, so God had to wake me up. After all these years I'm glad God said what He said. It was like someone pushing another person out of the way of a speeding car, to the person that was pushed it might seem rude.. but after that person gets a hold of themselves and looks back, they will realize that they needed to be pushed. Jesus Christ loves you and so do I.
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I wonder what would Karl popper's opinion be in the time of COVID, one narrative, unfalsifiable, and who ever dares to even think that what we've doing for the last 3 years is questionable with proper arguments is pseudo scientist, I wonder what would be his response to Fauci when he said that people who are attacking him are attacking the science !!!!

Mischaracterises Marx.

This makes little sense, and you can claim literally every science isn't a real science. No science on earth when a prediction doesn't work out do you then throw out the entire body of science going back to its origin, you expand and update it for a new theory that makes better predictions. Clearly in the example provided, if someone predicted the workers were about to revolt and they did not, they were falsified and someone who provided other explanations to why this was not happening would be taken more seriously.

It's also patently false to say Marx believed everything was determined by class struggle, Marx himself pushed back against this and argued that class relations can open up many possibilities and how they develop depends on historical conditions, i.e. other variables outside of class which are unaccounted for. Such as, Marx did explain how class struggle played out in the development of feudal society into capitalist society in western Europe, but when asked about Russia which was still feudal at the time, Marx insisted that you could not predict it would necessarily develop into a capitalist society because the historical conditions were different.

No one would ever apply Popper's method to any other science, it is only ever brought up in reference to historical materialism and conflict theory, because if you brought it up in reference to other fields it would be abundantly clear that it makes no sense. Popper's analysis as described here is very similar to the Christian creationist view of why we should reject evolution by natural selection. If we find one fossil that throws a wrench into our analysis, we don't throw the whole theory out, but we try to update it to account for it! So it's immunized!

No, that's just called science. You update it based on new evidence. How does anyone take this seriously?

REAL scientists go out of their way to refute their own hypotheses.
Modern pseudoscientists do the opposite. They are instrumentalists and positivists, anti-science.
While this is most obviously true of state medical "science" today, it occurs all throughout academia.
Physicists are horrifically guilty of tweaking their hypotheses to match observation, exactly like Marxists.

Marx couldn't anticipate Edward Bernais and the ability of capitalists to engineer wants and desires.

Totally love this. Upsc aspirant

This would be a bad example. Because the revised theories of Marx led to the creation of an effective playbook for the revolt. It also helps explain how the US was able to prevent one, which is by diluting class consciousness via labeling everybody and their Grandma's laborer middle class

cough Climate change cough

Popper was wrong about Marx. Marx did NOT think a revolution was inevitable. He thought it was desirable (obviously preferably non-violent) but was loathe to play the part of a prophet. He thought revolution leading to socialism was likely (and indeed socialism is an on-going and very young experiment, constantly attacked and suppressed by capitalists - to this day and remember, Hitler came to power by killing socialists for capitalists) because it overcame the contradictions and injustices of capitalism. Also, Popper is an intellectual shrimp compared to a giant like Marx, whose great contribution was an exhaustive and still profoundly accurate and frightening analysis of the nature, structure and character of capitalism. If you do not understand Marx's analysis of capitalism, what you think you know about it is capitalist propaganda.

but they did revolt, and do revolt ALL THE TIME

good explanation! thanks!

Can I please request that Aidan Turner narrate the majority of these videos? . . .sigh . . . another sigh

As a card-carrying Groucho Marxist allow me point out that Marxism became the opium of the simplistic dreamers, as opposed to Karl, who made a useful analysis and critique of Moolah-worship, it's fa£$€-economic priesthood, and it's oxymoron-mantra chanting rationalisers of megalomanic greed.
Caveat: do not eject Marx with his acolytic bathwater.

I had that Karl Popper in the back of the cab once....

Climate change myth, in a nut shell.

Great summary vid.

Karl Popper is hands down one of the greatest intellectual giants who turned upside down the way people view and experience things

When I first heard about the falsification theory of Karl Popper, I thought this is like the Lean Start up phenomena

Marxists created psuedo science to customize their idealogy for broader application to ensure some success Psuedo science is just an excuse for excuses.

Marx was never science and never claimed to be. He claimed to be a historian. What is this crap?

science isn't about
confirmation it's rather about
falsification,unlike , Marxist for whaan
all situations
all
win_win

So just what do you do with a concept like determinism?

This is Gold

What an excellent and concise video!

اسطورة الاطار ( كارل بوبر ).

يتكلم عالم اللغة (ورف ) و يردد معه بوبر عن سجن اللغة او عن سجن عقلي من نوع ما ، سجن صنعته القواعد البنائية للغتنا ، و الواقع غير ذلك تماما ، اللغة طريقة وجود الواقع و خروج من السجن الى الطبيعة و الى الاخر ، اللغة مشتركة و تجربة انسانية و السجن هنا تجاهل للانسان كواقع في سبيل واقع لا يشترك مع الانسان و لا مع الاخر و التعبير بلغة مختلفة عن شيء واحد من طبيعة اللغة و ليس او لا علاقة له بالحدث و الفعل احيانا :
بدأ بيير قطع الاشجار او
بيير بدأ يقطع الأشجار
التقديم و التاخير بلاغي اكثر الأحيان و هنآك جمل كثيرة لا تصف الفعل و لا يختلف المعنى بشيء سوى في الصدى الذي تحدثه اللغة في النفس و رموزها الإجتماعية لدى المتلقي و مدى قوة التاثير و كلام كواين عن النسبية الانطواوجية للغة و عن عدم القابلية لبعض العبارات للترجمة تجاهل للتجارب الذاتية التي تشرح لماذا هذه الكلمة لا تحمل ما تحمله تلك الكلمة، حياة اللغة هنا غير حياة اللغة هناك ؛ قالت لابيها : ما أجمل السماء فرد ابو الاسود الدؤلي: نجومها فقالت لابيها اردت التعجب فقال لها ابوها :
ما اجمل السماء (بفتح الهمزة )...
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What about Quantum mechanics?

BA-DUM.....tsssss

Just wanted to learn about Popper not watch anti Marxist propaganda garbage, thank you

Please read Marx s theory of value, how it is created . Capital part 1

Marx proves that capitalism is not sustainable and exploits the workers by paying them less than they produce. The value created by labor makes the capitalists rich. Thats why worker should rebel , its not falsified

This methodology is as old as the hills.

Karl Popper said the same thing about Freud and his theories, that's why today both political sciences and psicology are considered social sciences (the new pseudo-sciences) and not natural/exact sciences... I would have loved this video if it ended by calling psychoanalysis pseudo-sciences! XD That would be a honest job and the comments would be amazing....

Sounds like the CCP

Loved! Thank you!

Popper has no clue about science, or history. You must be either a scharlatan or an idiot, often both, to believe in Marxism. Marx misunderstood Hegel, the great scharlatan, and Hegel misunderstood Plato.

The BBC itself is a part of the Enemy of Open Society. This bogus discourse is a bit late. One could simply read Karl Popper's book.

I have an Masters degree in Philosophy (Oxford), Sociology (Cambridge), Psychology (Oxford) and History (Yale). I also have a PhD in Chemistry (MIT). So I am by far the smartest person here. That's all I wished to say.

That’s a good point I didn’t realize that the workers rebellion was un-falsifiable

grazie

Noice

a very good argument for why marxism is filled to the brim with holes

BBC? The BBC showing us why Marxism is a pseudoscientific trash pile? This was 5 years ago. Times change...

Being fanatically anti-communism i.e. conservative is just as stupid and irrational as being fanatically pro-communism.

I 100% agree with this video, even though I STRONGLY support Karl Marx's fight for workers' freedom and for Marxists' personal sacrifice and suffering for our nation & world.