ABSTRACT

The more modest one’s imagination, the more impressive this objection is likely to seem, which should put one on guard immediately. There is more than a whiff of an argumentum ad ignorantiam about this objection (“I cannot imagine how FP could be falsified; therefore, it isn’t a falsifiable theory”). Let me try to sustain this diagnosis by meeting the objection head on, by trying to repair the very ignorance that makes it plausible.