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1067437 No.1067437 [Reply] [Original]

Scientific investigation is a process that depends upon hypothesis testing and demands that scientific claims be offered in a manner that permits them to be falsified. Simply put, if you can't phrase your hypothesis in a falsifiable manner, it falls outside the bounds of science. Science is, therefore, one of the few fields of human endeavor that has opted to limit its own scope -- and it's that limitation that makes it so useful.

>> No.1067442

k lol

>> No.1067464

That limitation also makes it so you can't falsify things that can't be constructed in a falsifiable manner using Human languages. If we could only communicate with ideas, rather than words. Like trying to make water flow, rather than gravel.

>> No.1067466

i agree OP

and yet, so many idiots consider that allowing a hypothesis to possibly be wrong to be a sign of weakness... that all science is wrong on that account

i'll never understand stupid people

>> No.1067523

>>1067437
yet ironically we can never have enough science.