Tuesday, 12 August 2025

A note on the essential logical method of Falsification

Falsification is a very simple but powerful and often forgotten piece of logic that applies here:

If a media outlet cannot freely apply the following formula:
"Don't trust XXX''
then it cannot meaningfully say "Don't trust Putin''
Because "Don't trust Starmer'' is impossible, it invalidates all other uses of the formula by the outlet.
This is usually used to invalidate state media. However the problem is Capitalist media has its own impossible statements and so is equally invalid.
Instead we read such media to discern what they cannot say, rather than what they do, and that way extract the only meaning available.
Obviously all NATO allies are going to invalidate Putin while validating NATO (under Washington directives) so it is pointless to even do so.
===
Another version is via Inversion. If someone says I want you to make us lots of money. A good start would be to think about how to lose as much as possible: then not do this. Likewise people often take negative positions and reject everything say "ghosts." But by inversion the next step is to establish what evidence they would accept as evidence of ghosts. Like in the first instance if they cannot produce a list of evidence that would support ghosts, then their rejection of ghosts is meaningless.

No comments:

US displaying its Imperialist credentials... yet again

Wanted to know the pattern of UN votes over Venezuela and then got into seeing if ChatGPT could see the obvious pattern of Imperialism here....