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    Falsifiability (or refutability) is a deductive standard of evaluation of scientific theories and hypotheses, introduced by the philosopher of science...
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  • proven false, a foundation on which he was to propose his criterion of falsifiability. Verificationism allows existential statements, such as “unicorns exist”...
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    emphasized the criterion of falsifiability to distinguish science from non-science. Statements, hypotheses, or theories have falsifiability or refutability if...
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  • Science"'. Popper argues that science should adopt a methodology based on falsifiability, because no number of experiments can ever prove a theory, but a reproducible...
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  • and the scientific method. There are two components to testability: Falsifiability or defeasibility, which means that counterexamples to the hypothesis...
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  • best to act assuming that the world is independent of our minds. (See Falsifiability and testability below) Origins of solipsist thought are found in Greece...
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    between verification and falsifiability lies at the heart of his philosophy of science. It also inspired him to take falsifiability as his criterion of demarcation...
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    is proven to be either "true" or "false" through a verifiability- or falsifiability-oriented experiment. Any useful hypothesis will enable predictions by...
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  • Science and non-science are often distinguished by the criterion of falsifiability. The criterion was first proposed by philosopher of science Karl Popper...
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  • later work, he stated that falsifiability is both a necessary and sufficient criterion for demarcation. He described falsifiability as a property of "the logical...
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  • far as to ascribe value to theories only if they were falsifiable. Popper used the falsifiability criterion to demarcate a scientific theory from a theory...
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  • improbable assumptions. Popper's falsifiability criterion: For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be falsifiable. Sagan standard: Extraordinary...
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  • particular methodology for literary analysis. See also: Empiricism Falsifiability (especially, "Naïve falsification") Thomas Ernst Uebel (1992). Overcoming...
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  • Measurement (Outline of metrology and measurement) Hypothesis pro:Karl Popper Falsifiability con:Paul Feyerabend Statistical hypothesis testing Experiment Laboratory...
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    Encyclopedia Conspiracy fiction Conspirituality Dogma pseudoskepticism Falsifiability Fringe science Historical negationism Online youth radicalization Paranormal...
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    critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories, and thus treat science in its broader sense. In modern academic...
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    unique origins Extreme risk – Low-probability risk of very bad outcomes Falsifiability – Property of a statement that can be logically contradicted The Gray...
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    country. It is not necessarily restricted to making assertions that are falsifiable, and can extend to concepts that are more abstract than reputation –...
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    found. Critics argue that the multiverse concept lacks testability and falsifiability, which are essential for scientific inquiry, and that it raises unresolved...
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  • survive the observation. Popper proposed replacing verifiability with falsifiability as the landmark of scientific theories, replacing induction with falsification...
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  • mathematics shares much in common with the physical sciences. Like them, it is falsifiable, which means in mathematics that, if a result or a theory is wrong, this...
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  • formal notion of cryptographic falsifiability. Roughly, a computational hardness assumption is said to be falsifiable if it can be formulated in terms...
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  • theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. Testability is falsifiability; but there are degrees of testability: some theories are more testable...
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