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Falsifiability or Refutability is the capacity for a statement, theory or hypothesis to be contradicted by evidence. For example, the statement "All swans are white" is falsifiable because one can observe that black swans exist. (From Wikipedia)

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46Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17y
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56Building Intuitions On Non-Empirical Arguments In Science
Scott Alexander
5y
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192Double Crux — A Strategy for Mutual Understanding
Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)
7y
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30Unit Test Everything
DirectedEvolution
2y
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32Quadratic models and (un)falsified data
Bucky
5y
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26On the falsifiability of hypercomputation, part 2: finite input streams
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jessicata
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24On the falsifiability of hypercomputation
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jessicata
5y
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9How to provide a simple example to the requirement of falsifiability in the scientific method to a novice audience?
Val
9y
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7How Popper killed Particle Physics
J Thomas Moros
7y
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0The virtuous circle: twelve conjectures about female reproductive agency and cultural self-determination
Miles Saltiel
1y
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