Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/04960_Field_OMDK T59.txt

Text File | 1996-04-10 | 729b | 14 lines

very first law of scientific investigation—they
cannot be disproved. The rule of scientific reality—
if we still have that around because of this big
transition—is that whatever you state or propose
has to be disprovable, not provable, but
disprovable. It is more important for something
that you state to be open to complete destruction
only to be rebuilt. This is Karl Popper’s big
discovery—he was a great mathematician who just
died— he’s the one who made that law: that if you
can’t disprove it, you can’t prove it. So whatever
you say is really not relevant in scientific terms
because you cannot disprove it; and a lot of what
McLuhan said couldn’t be disproved. So there is a