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by DavidSJ 2018 days ago
Falsifiability was Popper’s demarcation of science, not his demarcation of tolerance (if he had one).

Note that he specifically says in that passage that he’s not advocating the suppression of all intolerant speech. Thus even if some speech were intolerant, that by itself would be insufficient for suppression.

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