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Philosophy

Philosophy of Science

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The philosopher Karl Popper argued that a theory can only be scientific if it can be proven false—a concept he called falsifiability. But this idea itself has been criticized and refined for decades.

Why this is interesting

We trust science to explain the world, but what actually makes an idea “scientific”? Does a lucky guess or a conspiracy theory count as science if it’s testable?