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Falsifiability or Refutability is the capacity for a statement, theory or hypothesis to be contradicted by evidence. For example, the statement "All swans are white" is falsifiable because one can observe that black swans exist. (From Wikipedia)

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46Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable

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56Building Intuitions On Non-Empirical Arguments In Science

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191Double Crux — A Strategy for Mutual Understanding

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30Unit Test Everything

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32Quadratic models and (un)falsified data

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26On the falsifiability of hypercomputation, part 2: finite input streams

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26On the falsifiability of hypercomputation, part 2: finite input streams

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24On the falsifiability of hypercomputation

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9How to provide a simple example to the requirement of falsifiability in the scientific method to a novice audience?

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7How Popper killed Particle Physics

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