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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.