The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable · chapter 1 · id the-black-swan-c1-05-taleb-draws-heavily-on-karl-po
“Taleb draws heavily on Karl Popper's falsifiability framework -- the asymmetry that a single black swan can disprove the universal statement 'all swans are white' while no number of white swans can ever prove it.”
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Sextus Empiricussource alive
The Pyrrhonian skeptic has the skill of finding for every argument an equal and opposing argument, producing suspension of judgment (epochē).
Wikipedia: Falsifiabilitysource alive
Popper proposed falsifiability as the cornerstone solution to both the problem of induction and the problem of demarcation. A single black swan falsifies the universal statement 'all swans are white' via modus tollens.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Popper, Philosophy of Sciencesource alive
Popper argues that inductive reasoning plays no role in his account of theory choice. The asymmetry between verification and falsification is central: no finite number of observations can verify a universal generalization, but a single counterexample can falsify it.
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