PCMadness

Submitted by Saladin (United Arab Emirates), Jun 16, 2006 at 03:20

You said

Convenient I'd say. You can't prove it, you can't disprove it.

Wrong PCMadness! You can't prove it but you CAN disprove it.

And then you wrote

Karl Popper on the theory of falsification...."Popper realized that science advances instead by deductive falsification through a process of "conjectures and refutations." It is imagination and creativity, not induction, that generates real scientific theories, which is how Einstein could study the universe with no more than a piece of chalk. Experiment and observation test theories, not produce them"

I don't see how you can conclude that falsification tests mean nothing from what Popper has realized? This is exactly what i said: bring a theory and bring with it falsification tests; the falsification test may involve experiments and tests; so what? if they disprove the theory, the theory is finished.

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