Falsifiability - Naïve falsification - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Falsifiability: Encyclopedia - Falsifiability
Falsifiability is an important concept in the philosophy of science that amounts to the apparently paradoxical idea that a proposition or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Falsifiability: Encyclopedia Ii - Falsifiability - Naïve Falsification
Falsifiability was first developed by Karl Popper in the 1930s. Popper noticed that two types of statements are of particular value to sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Falsifiability: Encyclopedia Ii - Falsifiability - Some Examples
Claims about verifiability and falsifiability have been used to criticize various controversial views. Examining these examples shows the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Falsifiability: 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Falsifiability: Encyclopedia Ii - Falsifiability - Criticism
Thomas Kuhn’s influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions argued that scientists work within a conceptual paradigm that de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Falsifiability: Encyclopedia Ii - Falsifiability - Formal Logical Arguments
The falsification of theories occurs through modus tollens, via some observation. Suppose some theory T implies an observation O: The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Falsifiability: Encyclopedia Ii - Falsifiability - Falsificationism
In place of naïve falsification, Popper envisioned science as evolving by the successive rejection of falsified theories, rather than fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Falsifiability: Encyclopedia Ii - Falsifiability - The Criterion Of Demarcation
Popper proposed falsification as a way of determining if a theory is scientific or not. If a theory is falsifiable, then it is scientific...   » Read the article