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—“Formally, then, Popper’s theory of demarcation may be articulated as follows: where a ‘basic statement’ is to be understood as a particular observation-report, then we may say that a theory is scientific if and only if it divides the class of basic statements into the following two non-empty sub-classes: (a) the class of all those basic statements with which it is inconsistent, or which it prohibits—this is the class of its potential falsifiers (i.e., those statements which, if true, falsify the whole theory), and (b) the class of those basic statements with which it is consistent, or which it permits (i.e., those statements which, if true, corroborate it, or bear it out).”—

PROPERTARIANISM’S POSITION:

Since science ( the academy in general) is a luxury good, insulated from opportunity costs, insulated from market forces, assumedly unbiased, and assumedly free of use in the political sphere as a means of coercion or profiteering or conquest – and prior to the present, assumed to not need to provide warranty on their work products – Popper’s articulation of demarcation is incorrect, because it is insufficient for use as a general rule and grants particular sanctions to scientists that the 20th century has proven, if not the entire american experiment – that we may not do.

There exists only truthful and untruthful speech, and the speaker’s warranty that speech is truthful, by demonstrating the diligence of internal consistency, external correspondence, falsification, and finally existentially demonstrating that it is free of imaginary, erroneous, biased, and deceptive content.

(Under this principle, we could have prosecuted the Frankfurt school for the fabrication of their evidence.)

Free speech requires warranty an operationalism is the only warranty possible for theories.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev Ukraine

—“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