Comment by sajberhippien on 24/02/2025 at 14:23 UTC

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That's very different from what you said in your last post; you weren't simplifying but making an unrelated claim.

And you are correct; physicalism is unfalsifiable. It also is not a scientific theory, and as such is unrelated to Popper's stance on falsifiability as a central requirement of scientific inquiry. Another example of a stance that is unfalsifiable would be, well, Popper's stance on falsifiability.

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Comment by reddituserperson1122 at 24/02/2025 at 14:26 UTC

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Comment by WorkItMakeItDoIt at 24/02/2025 at 14:35 UTC

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I wrote that off the cuff in frustration and made a mistake about the direction of implication.  There is overlap in that they are built on observation, but they aren't the same.  Thank you for your understanding.

I am fine with what you're saying.

If you are a physicalist, then you aren't like other physicalists I've encountered, who don't accept that their axioms are just assumptions, and use that stick to whack everyone else over the head.