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Comment author: David_Gerard 24 December 2011 11:15:50PM 0 points [-]

I personally would prefer to use the word "theory" to mean "a scientific theory that is, by definition, falsifiable"

So would I. But it's just an ambiguous word in English that means different things in different places. As I take it into the extremely foggy areas that also use the word "theory", I'm going for something like "has explanatory power".

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