Tag: falsification

5 items with this tag.

• Ch 17 — The Market Test

  Part III chapter arguing that the VSM community's strongest public warrant, that no failed case has ever been found, describes how the field records its work rather than the model itself.

  • punch-and-judy
  • vsm
  • cybernetics
  • falsification
  • professional-practice
  • evidence

• Ch 18 — The Test That Could Not Lose

  Part III chapter reading the two most recent quantitative tests of the VSM and arguing that neither was designed so that a negative result could cost the model its central claim.

  • punch-and-judy
  • vsm
  • cybernetics
  • falsification
  • empirical-testing

• Ch 19 — No Failure Condition

  Part III chapter reading the host discipline's official self-description, cybernetics as a way of thinking rather than a body of facts, and asking what a way of thinking can be charged with.

  • punch-and-judy
  • vsm
  • cybernetics
  • falsification
  • second-order-cybernetics

• Ch 21 — The Category Error as Shelter

  Part III chapter arguing that the claim that testing the model is a category error is a shelter this tradition never declared, set beside two founders who paired an immunity with an exposure in print.

  • punch-and-judy
  • vsm
  • cybernetics
  • falsification
  • performativity

• Ch 28 — What Would Count Against It?

  Chapter 28 of Punch and Judy converts the book's charges into registered conditions of disconfirmation, claim by claim, with the smallest fair test named for each.

  • punch-and-judy
  • vsm
  • cybernetics
  • falsification
  • preregistration