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Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 20 January 2011 07:52:14PM 1 point [-]

You're confusing falsifiability with testability. The former is about principle, the latter is about practice.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 20 January 2011 07:59:54PM -1 points [-]

Ah, thank you. So in that case it is rather difficult to construct a plausibly coherent unfalsifiable hypothesis, no?

Comment author: CronoDAS 24 January 2011 04:21:03AM 0 points [-]

So in that case it is rather difficult to construct a plausibly coherent unfalsifiable hypothesis, no?

"2 + 2 = 4" comes pretty close.