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lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoA weatherman predicting rain has made a falsifiable prediction, how does that relate to Popper?
Comment on Theories on Theories
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoA weatherman predicting rain has made a falsifiable prediction, how does that relate to Popper?
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
When a weatherman’s prediction is falsified, the model itself is not disproven. The fact that the practitioners of that discipline stick with it even when a prediction is falsified starts to look like the pseudoscience side of Popper’s falsifiability criterion.