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Perspective voyage · 1934

Popper — Risky tests rather than piles of confirmations

Does what a theory forbids matter more than the number of observations that seem to support it?

The question that moves this idea

What makes an inquiry scientific?

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Popper argues that finite observations cannot verify a universal theory, while empirical science requires claims exposed to possible counterinstances.

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  • Karl Popper

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §2.3 Demarcation and §2.4 Basic Statements and Falsifiability

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1934 CE · 1934

The Logic of Scientific Discovery locates a boundary of science in claims that risk being wrong.

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