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Cladism’s denial of science

July 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

If we assume as an axiom that kinds exist (as cladism does), then it is actually possible to deny the traditional hypotetico-deductive scientific method using its own method. Cladism’s axiom means that two consecutive kinds have to equal a single kind (to make present possible), which falsifies the traditional hypotetico-deductive science’s axiom that a single kind is a single kind, instead accepting cladism’s hypothesis that consecutive kinds are single kinds. Traditional hypotetico-deductive science’s falsification does thus deny itself.

This falsification does, of course, not mean that the traditional hypotetico-deductive science is wrong, but that it is wrong given cladism’s axiom that kinds exist is right. Any hypothesis or axiom is ultimately judged by its agreement with facts, and cladism’s axiom that kinds exist does not agree with the fact that time is relative.  It means that although cladism could have falsified traditional science using its own method, it can’t. It is, as usual, very close to, but cannot, as usual, reach the carrot.

Categories: Cladism

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