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What do you mean? It sounds perfectly falsifiable to me: you just need to show a well accepted scientific theory that cannot be falsified even in principle.
by throw310822 3y ago
What do you mean? It sounds perfectly falsifiable to me: you just need to show a well accepted scientific theory that cannot be falsified even in principle.
- foldr 3y agoThe problem with this is that Popper wanted the criterion to function normatively. So for example, he argued that Marxism and Darwin's evolutionary theory were not falsifiable and hence not scientific. Since at least the latter was a well accepted scientific theory, it's clear that Popper didn't put forward falsificationism as an empirical generalization about which scientific theories are well accepted. (Popper later changed his mind about evolution.)