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To: NOBO2012
The great science philosopher Karl Popper (1902-94) is famous for his concept of 'Falsifiability' as a tool for helping determining the validity of a theory. While not an absolute, I am struck by the fact that the proponents of this 'crisis' seem to seize upon every non-nominal weather phenomena as proof!

"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."

"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

5 posted on 01/06/2018 6:21:30 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: SES1066

Thanks, Great quote...

I will have lots of uses for it...


7 posted on 01/06/2018 6:36:11 AM PST by Popman (My sin was great, Your love was greater  What could separate us now…)
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