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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Falsify the whole theory?

Does "falsify the whole theory" mean "falsify the whole theory (the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity)"?

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Popper was also puzzled by the stark contrast between the non-scientific character of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_psychology and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Adler's theories in the field of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology and the revolution set off by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics in the early 20th century. Karl Popper thought that Einstein's theory, as a theory properly grounded in scientific thought and method, was highly 'risky', in the sense that it was possible to deduce consequences from it which were, in the light of the then dominant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtonian_physics, highly improbable (e.g., that light is deflected towards solid bodies—confirmed by Eddington's experiments in 1919), and which would, if they turned out to be false, falsify the whole theory. In contrast, nothing could, even in principle, falsify psychoanalytic theories. He thus came to the conclusion that such theories had more in common with primitive myths than with genuine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper#cite_note-plato.stanford-30
  

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NL888 Does "falsify the whole theory" mean "falsify the whole theory (the Einstein 's theory of relativity )"? Yes.

  • NL888 Does "falsify the whole theory" mean "falsify the whole theory (the Einstein 's theory of relativity )"?
  • Yes.
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NL888Does "falsify the whole theory" mean "falsify the whole theory (the Einstein 's theory of relativity )"?
Yes.

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