In other words, Plato is wrong. The poet is not a liar because he's not talking about anything that's verifiable or falsifiable.
意思就是说,柏拉图错了,诗人不是骗子,因为它从未说过什么话可以证明或证伪。
The issue of vagueness is summarized in a more technical way by the philosopher Karl Popper who described--who introduced the term of falsifiability.
关于概念模糊的问题,哲学家卡尔·波普用一个更加专业的术语,进行了总结,他提出了“可证伪性“这个术语。
But the problem is, when you make specific falsifiable predictions they don't always do that well.
但问题是,你所得出的这些具体而可证伪的预测,并不总是很准。
Well, we'll talk about that, but the point here is they can be false.
我们以后会慢慢讨论,但关键在于它们是可以证伪的。
If they couldn't be proven wrong, they're not interesting enough to be science.
如果理论不能够被证伪,那它们就算不上科学。
One reason is these are interesting and falsifiable claims about child development.
一个原因是,这些是关于儿童发展的,有趣且可证伪的论断
What Skinner--What Chomsky is raising here is the concern of unfalsifiablity.
乔姆斯基在这里提出了,对不可证伪性的质疑。
The idea of falsifiability is that what distinguishes science from non science is that scientific predictions make strong claims about the world and these claims are of a sort that they could be proven wrong.
可证伪性是指,科学与非科学的区别在于,科学能够做出关于世界的有力预测,而这些预测是可以被证伪的。
It's falsifiable.
它是可证伪的。
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