“Every genuine scientific theory then, in Popper’s view, is prohibitive, in the

—“Every genuine scientific theory then, in Popper’s view, is prohibitive, in the sense that it forbids, by implication, particular events or occurrences. As such it can be tested and falsified, but never logically verified. Thus Popper stresses that it should not be inferred from the fact that a theory has withstood the most rigorous testing, for however long a period of time, that it has been verified; rather we should recognise that such a theory has received a high measure of corroboration. and may be provisionally retained as the best available theory until it is finally falsified (if indeed it is ever falsified), and/or is superseded by a better theory.”—

PROPERTARIAN POSITION

An advocate of Propertarinaism would argue that since the distinction is between truthful and non-truthful speech, not between science and non-science, that the term ‘scientific’ is not relevant – merely a ‘more polite’ way of saying someone is not and cannot be speaking truthfully – and therefore is polluting the commons.

Furthermore, Propertarianism would argue that all constraining improvements upon our theories are prohibitive in an effort to eliminate imaginary, erroneous, biased, and deceitful content. And that falsification is insufficient – in that it performs a warranty of correspondence, but fails to provide a warranty of possibility or truthfulness, by demonstrating that all content of the theory is existentially possible.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine