Concept
Falsifiability
Overview
property of a theory/hypothesis/statement that can be logically contradicted by an empirical test or a fact
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Philosophers who discussed Falsifiability
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Antony Flew
- Karl Popper
- Noam Chomsky
- Thomas Kuhn
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Paul Thagard
- Imre Lakatos
- Blaise Pascal
- Otto Neurath
- Hans Albert
- John W. N. Watkins
- Jean-Michel Berthelot
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- David Stove
- Herbert A. Simon
- Michael Ruse
- Isaac Newton
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- Karl Popper
- Urbain Le Verrier
- Problem of induction
- Logical positivism
- Modus tollens
- Classical mechanics
- A. J. Ayer
- Moritz Schlick
- Hypothesis
- Vienna Circle
- Observation
- Null hypothesis
- Pseudoscience
- Psychoanalysis
- Postmodernism
- Newton's law of universal gravitation
- Herbert Spencer
- Thomas Kuhn
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.