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falsified .
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Examples
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Any essentialist position for or against it remains, in my opinion, unproven and unfalsified.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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For this reason, he argues that a theory is deemed to be better than another if (while unfalsified) it has greater empirical content, and therefore greater predictive power than its rival.
Karl Popper Thornton, Stephen 2009
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That a morphology is unfalsified and valid does not prove that it is correct -- if I can cause a cup to smash by throwing it at a wall, it does not follow that a smashed cup was caused by me throwing it at a wall -- but we can at least prove it incorrect if it is invalid and/or inconsistent with what we observe in the world.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE Hal Duncan 2007
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The corpus of consistent evidence and unfalsified theory underlying AGW hypotheses is as persuasive and thoroughly tested as the corpus underlying radiometric dating?
The Volokh Conspiracy » More Responses to the CRU E-mail Leaks 2009
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Consider the early Popper (1935), who held that no amount of evidence can make an unfalsified theory probable (or at least no more probable than any other unfalsified theory).
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics Paseau, Alexander 2008
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The theory of relativity is undoubtedly more probable than the as yet unfalsified hypothesis that the world will end in the year 2525.
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics Paseau, Alexander 2008
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There is no better evidence for one unfalsified proposition than for another.
Philosophy of Economics Hausman, Daniel M. 2008
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CNS is still the only cosmological scenario within which it is possible to make falsifiable predictions (and btw its predictions remain unfalsified.)
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But #3 has falsifiable tenets that remain unfalsified to this day.
Primordial Soup's On: Scientists Repeat Evolution's Most Famous Experiment - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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But #3 has falsifiable tenets that remain unfalsified to this day.
Primordial Soup's On: Scientists Repeat Evolution's Most Famous Experiment - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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