{"id":2005,"date":"2019-08-28T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2020-09-22T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T16:32:10","slug":"every-assertion-made-is-to-be-sufficiently-clear-and-precise-to-be-capable-of-being-definitely-disproved-if-false-curt-ducasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/28\/every-assertion-made-is-to-be-sufficiently-clear-and-precise-to-be-capable-of-being-definitely-disproved-if-false-curt-ducasse\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;. . . every assertion made is to be sufficiently clear and precise to be capable of being definitely disproved if false.&#8221; Curt Ducasse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n&#8220;. . . condition of any progress in philosophical discussions, which is, that every assertion made be definite enough to be definitely refuted if erroneous, rather than vague enough to leave a loophole if attacked.&#8221; Curt Ducasse, <i>Causation and the Types of Necessity<\/i>, 1924, 1969\n\n<\/p><p>\n&#8220;It tends to be the fate of lucid writers that their mistakes, being obvious, are impressive; while the contents of their insights, being rendered obvious by clarity of exposition, appear trivial.&#8221; Curt Ducasse\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;. . . condition of any progress in philosophical discussions, which is, that every assertion made be definite enough to be definitely refuted if erroneous, rather than vague enough to leave a loophole if attacked.&#8221; Curt Ducasse, Causation and the Types of Necessity, 1924, 1969 &#8220;It tends to be the fate of lucid writers that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/28\/every-assertion-made-is-to-be-sufficiently-clear-and-precise-to-be-capable-of-being-definitely-disproved-if-false-curt-ducasse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;. . . every assertion made is to be sufficiently clear and precise to be capable of being definitely disproved if false.&#8221; Curt Ducasse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keep-it-simple-stupid-kiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}