My post on falsificationism turned out to be a lot more popular than I expected. I’m particularly glad that many scientists seem to have found it useful, since I primarily wrote it for them. On the other hand, it also…
Tag: Karl Popper
Karl Popper famously defended the view, known as falsificationism, that what distinguishes science from non-science is falsifiability. On this view, a theory is scientific if and only if it’s falsifiable, at least in principle. What this means for a theory…