Falsifiability

High school (ages 12+)
Thinking & Learning

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the introduced by?Karl Popper in his 1934 book 'The Logic of Scientific Discovery'
2. What is the core criterion?A scientific hypothesis or theory must be capable of being empirically contradicted

Falsifiability: The logical possibility of proving a hypothesis or theory false through empirical observation or experiment.
Problem of Induction: The philosophical challenge of justifying inferences from observed instances to unobserved instances.
Problem of Demarcation: The philosophical problem of distinguishing scientific knowledge from non-scientific or pseudoscientific knowledge.
Universal Statement: A statement that claims something is true for all cases or instances.