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Tag: falsification

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At Mind Matters News: Abduction: A thinking skill you can do but computers can’t

Fahsing point outs that criminal investigations are generally abductive rather than deductive. “Try to eliminate as many explanations or lines of inquiry as you can. Just like in science, theories can be truly tested only through falsification.”

Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 Author News Comment(1)
Intelligent Design Multiverse

Science writer: Multiverse is based on zero empirical evidence

Jim Baggott doesn’t like ID either but he also doesn’t appear to understand it.

Posted on February 27, 2021 Author News Comments(14)
Intelligent Design Philosophy Science

Another attack on Karl Popper’s falsification concept

Disparagement of falsification in science has come up quite a bit in recent years, mainly sponsored — we think —by people whose ideas are unfalsifiable in principle and therefore only doubtfully science.

Posted on February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Author News Comment(1)
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Trying to subtly deflate Karl Popper’s falsification—again

The war on falsification is like the war on math. Causes with nonsense or destruction at their heart cannot succeed while such values remain in place.

Posted on February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Author News Comments(3)
Intelligent Design Philosophy Science

Sabine Hossenfelder on the flight from falsifiability

Hossenfelder is right to be concerned. Some cosmologists would like to dump falsifiability as a criterion. If they could, they would remove an obstacle to demanding public belief in ideas like the multiverse, ideas that cannot be falsified because there is no evidence for them.

Posted on April 27, 2019April 27, 2019 Author News Comment(1)

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