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68 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 January 2008 06:24AM

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Comment author: steven 07 January 2008 06:39:40PM 0 points [-]

I think it's worth keeping the distinction between falsification (a likelihood ratio of 0) and disconfirmation (a likelihood ratio < 1). Usually when people say "unfalsifiable" they really mean "undisconfirmable" or "unstronglydisconfirmable".