{"id":23395,"date":"2019-06-26T02:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23395"},"modified":"2019-07-01T01:21:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T17:21:51","slug":"razor-7-poppers-falsifiability-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/06\/razor-7-poppers-falsifiability-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"Razor #7: Popper&#8217;s Falsifiability Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23397\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/swan.jpg?resize=600%2C709&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/swan.jpg?w=1016&amp;ssl=1 1016w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/swan.jpg?resize=81%2C96&amp;ssl=1 81w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/swan.jpg?resize=254%2C300&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/swan.jpg?resize=768%2C907&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/swan.jpg?resize=867%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nPopper&#8217;s Falsifiability Principle:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a theory to be considered scientific,<br \/>\nit must be falsifiable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even the scientific are called theories<br \/>\nas they might be invalidated in time,<br \/>\nby other theories that seem more valid later,<br \/>\nin the quest for truth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(In philosophy, a razor is a principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate (&#8216;shave off&#8217;) unlikely explanations for a phenomenon, or avoid unnecessary actions.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popper&#8217;s Falsifiability Principle: For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be falsifiable. Thought: Even the scientific are called&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-truth","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}