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The sound management of a fishery as a social engineering: applying Karl Popper's demarcation criterion to an Area 2 stock of Pacific halibut
(2014-10-23)
The Newfoundland fishery for Atlantic cod was once the largest cod fishery in the World. In the early 1990s this fishery formed part of an Atlantic Canadian groundfish fishery collapse that has become one of the World's ...
Some notes on the Aristotelian origin of the distinction between a falsificationist's and verificationist's view of science: together with corrections to my earlier account
(2012-10-31)
It has not always been realised that Karl Popper's analytic distinction between the logically stronger falsificationist's view of science and the logically weaker verificationist's and inductivist's view of science is a ...
The Poverty of mathematical and existential truth: examples from fisheries science
(2011-06-27)
Several years ago I suggested that the harvesting of our commercial fisheries could be improved if the non-falsifiable models of a fisheries science were to be replaced with the falsiable models of a fisheries economics. ...
Observations on a mixed farm during the transition to biological husbandry
(2011-01-19)
Tunwath is a mixed farm (laying hens-grains) located in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, in a cool humid temperate zone. It includes about 2100 laying hens, 35 hectares of field crops and additional garden, pasture, hay ...
Fisheries Stock Assessment: an inductive science with the Logical form of Primitive Magic
(2010-01-20)
Abstract. A logical analysis of the common fisheries models used in stock assessment has shown that they produce specific
predictions with the logical form of existential statements, fail Karl Popper’s falsifiability ...
Distinguishing input controls from ouput controls in Atlantic Canada's fisheries: explaining the decline and collapse of Newfoundland's Atlantic cod stocks
(2013-03-14)
The lobster and groundfish fisheries of Atlantic Canada have been managed in very different ways. The Atlantic lobster fishery has been managed by input controls in which regulations have been developed by a posteriori ...
Critical thinking through the eyes of Richard Paul and Karl Popper
(2014-10-08)
This 1993 workshop marks the beginning of my new logical or metaphysical research program on the application of Karl Popper’s non-inductive theory of method to the management of the World’s commercial fisheries. The view, ...
Ecological Assessment of the Plant Communities of the Williams Lake Backlands
(The Williams Lake Conservation Company, 2014-02-12)
The Williams Lake Backlands (WLB), covering approximately 200 ha, are the larger, undeveloped part of the Williams Lake Watershed which includes Colpitt Lake and Williams Lake. The WLB are part of "Purcell's Cove Backlands" ...
Reflections on the failure of traditional fisheries management
(2017-01)
A traditional fisheries management or fish stock assessment takes a Lamarckian-like instructive view of fisheries science that involves an inductive monism. Its invalid inductive arguments have no problem solving capacity ...
Reflections on the failure of traditional fisheries management
(2016-06-03)
A traditional fisheries management or fish stock assessment takes a Lamarckian-like instructive view of fisheries science. Its invalid inductive arguments have no problem solving capacity and are responsible for the collapse ...