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Falsifiability - Popper's swan argument | | Falsifiability - Popper's swan argument: Encyclopedia II - Falsifiability - Popper's swan argument | | One notices a white swan, from this one can conclude:
At least one swan is white.
From this, one may wish to infer that:
All swans are white.
However, to prove this, one must find all the swans in the world and verify that they are white.
As it turns out, not all swans are white. By finding a black swan, one has falsified the statement all swans are white; it is not true.
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See also:Falsifiability, Falsifiability - Naïve falsification, Falsifiability - Falsificationism, Falsifiability - Popper's swan argument, Falsifiability - Formal logical arguments, Falsifiability - The criterion of demarcation, Falsifiability - Criticism, Falsifiability - From scientists, Falsifiability - Some examples, Falsifiability - Mathematics, Falsifiability - Ethics, Falsifiability - Theism, Falsifiability - Conspiracy theories, Falsifiability - Economics, Falsifiability - Historicism, Falsifiability - Solipsism, Falsifiability - Physical laws | | | Falsifiability, Falsifiability - Conspiracy theories, Falsifiability - Criticism, Falsifiability - Economics, Falsifiability - Ethics, Falsifiability - Falsificationism, Falsifiability - Formal logical arguments, Falsifiability - From scientists, Falsifiability - Historicism, Falsifiability - Mathematics, Falsifiability - Naïve falsification, Falsifiability - Physical laws, Falsifiability - Popper's swan argument, Falsifiability - Solipsism, Falsifiability - Some examples, Falsifiability - The criterion of demarcation, Falsifiability - Theism, Cognitive bias, Defeasible reasoning, Duhem-Quine thesis, Fallibilism, Obsolete scientific theories, Occam's Razor, Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of science, Predictive power | | |
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Falsifiability - Popper's swan argument
One notices a white swan, from this one can conclude:
At least one swan is white.
From this, one may wish to infer that:
All swans are white.
However, to prove this, one must find all the swans in the world and verify that they are white.
As it turns out, not all swans are white. By finding a black swan, one has falsified the statement all swans are white; it is not true.
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