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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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41Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
42
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55Building Intuitions On Non-Empirical Arguments In Science
Scott Alexander
4y
27
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177Double Crux — A Strategy for Mutual Understanding
[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien
5y
108
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29Unit Test Everything
DirectedEvolution
9mo
0
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32Quadratic models and (un)falsified data
Bucky
3y
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25On the falsifiability of hypercomputation, part 2: finite input streamsΩ
jessicata
3y
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7
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24On the falsifiability of hypercomputationΩ
jessicata
3y
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9How to provide a simple example to the requirement of falsifiability in the scientific method to a novice audience?
Val
7y
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7How Popper killed Particle Physics
J Thomas Moros
6y
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