DanArmak comments on Better to be testably wrong than to generate nontestable wrongness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 20 March 2012 07:39:32PM 0 points [-]

Better to be testably wrong than to generate nontestable wrongness

The big question is, is it better to be testably wrong or untestably right? :-)

More seriously: on what objective or documented evidence do you base your theory? If it's just your general feeling based on personal experience (but you haven't exhaustively documented all relevant personal experience during your life) then I believe you know that human biases make this evidence practically negligible.