SCIENTIFIC CRITICISM: WARRANTY OF DUE DILIGENCE IN TRUTHFUL TESTIMONY. The purpo

SCIENTIFIC CRITICISM: WARRANTY OF DUE DILIGENCE IN TRUTHFUL TESTIMONY.

The purpose of scientific warranty is to reduce or eliminate imaginary content from our arguments and our theories by laundering them of error, bias, deception and fraud.

We produce this warranty by the systematic criticism of properties upon which our statements depend:

Internal consistency using axiomatic logic.

External correspondence by demonstrated tests against observable phenomenon.

Existential possibility by operational and intuitionistic definitions.

Parsimony by falsification.

Ethics (Voluntary transfer) by subjective testing of operational statements. (Positive)

Morality – free of negative externality (involuntary transfer) by falsification. (Negative)

Each of these tests criticises the theory. Each performs an act of due diligence. And only the entire suite constitutes a complete warranty, and only complete warranties are warrantable.