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Comment author: ChristianKl 26 May 2015 05:21:59PM 0 points [-]

Popperian falsifiability, Kuhnian paradigm shifts, and Bayesian reasoning all fall into this domain. There is a great compendium by Curd and Cover; I recommend searching the table of contents for essays also available online. Here, philosophers experiment with the precision of testable models rather than hypotheses.

Could you explain to me in what extend Popper provided a precise model that's testable?

Comment author: ZacHirschman 26 May 2015 07:00:34PM 0 points [-]

Popper (or Popperism) predicted that falsifiable models would yield more information than non-falsifiable ones.

I don't think this is precisely testable, but it references precisely testable models. That is why I would categorize it as philosophy (of science), but not science.

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