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Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation by coldtea on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:12AM (#13929476)
Popper's concept of "falsifiable" claims as the only means to science has been debunked time and again.

It's not how real science works most of the time.

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Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation by TuringTest on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:08AM (#13929968)
> It's not how real science works most of the time.

If you define science as "what scientists do", sure.

But if you define science as "knowledge about the world that you can acquire by reason", you need it to be falsifiable; otherwise reason can't tell apart knowledge from invention.

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Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation by rimliu on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:02AM (#13929936)
Interesting. How then does the real science works? Maybe "falsifiable" claims are not the only means, but that's exactly how science works. Otherwise, why build LHC and LIGO?
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Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation by lordfoom on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:22AM (#13929518)
Really? I'm interested in reading more about this?
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Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation by coldtea on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @08:07AM (#13930222)
Check e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method

(And other newer sources on epistemology, but those are basic).

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