virus: Re:PCR Three Axioms

D.H.Rosdeitcher (76473.3041@compuserve.com)
Tue, 23 Sep 1997 11:07:56 -0400


Tad wrote:

>>What did you say about my PCR Axioms?
>>(1) Any statement is either falsifiable or it's either a "tautology" or
an
>>"axiom".
>
>>(2) Falsifiable statements are useful, tautologies and axioms are not.
>
>>(3) A falsifiable statement (A) cannot be a tautology or an axiom (B) at
>the
>>same time. In other words A=A.

Each one of those statements is falsifiable--they can get tested as either
true or false. The 3rd statement is different from the other 2, in the
sense that I can't find any counter-examples to falsify it, so I'd consider
it "true". You can take any "true" statement and see how the law of
identity, "A is A", can apply to it. But you cannot start out with "A is A"
and then deduce anything useful. See the difference?

>Is the statement "Any statement is either falsifiable or it's either a
>'tautology' or an 'axiom' a falsifiable statement, an axiom, or a
tautology?

A falsifiable statement--it can get tested for being true or false..
--David R.