Via Positiva and Via Negativa are more useful terms than Justification vs Critic

Via Positiva and Via Negativa are more useful terms than Justification vs Criticism, or Justificationism vs Falsificationism, or Social Construction vs Darwinism.

The degree to which one must integrate via-negativa (falsification) into his thinking is something I vastly underestimated. And it is very hard to practice Testimonialism (or even communicate it) if you don’t know how to use it.

I mean, it’s just *an operational* name for the process.

(h/t: Nassim Nicholas Taleb )