Falsificationism Falsified |
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Authors: | Sven Ove Hansson |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 78, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | A conceptual analysis of falsificationism is performed, in which the central falsificationist thesis is divided into several
components. Furthermore, an empirical study of falsification in science is reported, based on the 70 scientific contributions
that were published as articles in Nature in 2000. Only one of these articles conformed to the falsificationist recipe for
successful science, namely the falsification of a hypothesis that is more accessible to falsification than to verification.
It is argued that falsificationism relies on an incorrect view of the nature of scientific inquiry and that it is, therefore,
not a tenable research methodology. |
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Keywords: | falsification falsificationism verification hypothesis testing explorative research Karl Popper |
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