Philosophy of Science · Logic of Theory Evaluation

Falsificationism

The mark of science is not verifiability but falsifiability.

What it claims

Falsificationism is the methodology Popper proposed to solve the problem of induction and the demarcation problem at once. No finite set of observations can confirm a universal statement. But a single counterexample can logically refute it.

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Key thinkers

Karl Popper · Imre Lakatos · Hans Albert · John Watkins