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As her Venn diagram showed, 'scientific' is a subset of 'falsifiable'. Scientific requires falsifiable, but falsifiable doesn't by itself imply scientific. 'In
by jodrellblank 4y ago
As her Venn diagram showed, 'scientific' is a subset of 'falsifiable'. Scientific requires falsifiable, but falsifiable doesn't by itself imply scientific. 'In five minutes the Pacific Ocean will turn to liquid gold' is falsifiable but not scientific. Why would you predict that, what data does it align with, what model of matter and liquids does it work with, by what mechanism might it happen, why five minutes and not sooner or later, etc?