Thank you, literalgirl

[conuly]

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[leora.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's right. So, if your statement is - all pie is apple-flavored, it is potentially falsifiable by finding/baking a pie that is not apple-flavored.

This would disprove the hypothesis and it wouldn't be accepted as part of science. But if it is potentially falsifiable, but no one has managed to prove it false, and there is evidence to support it, then it will generally be accepted.

Nothing in science is accepted 100%, because it's always possible for some deeper understanding to show it's not completely true. But the more evidence in support, the more strongly it is accepted.

Also, a single study that seems to falsify it won't always be accepted, because it's likely due to experimental error/forgery/etc. But if you can reproduce the conditions that falsify it or many people found the same evidence to falsify it, then it's generally shown to be wrong.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

I knew about the rest of it, the whole 'can't false it' and the 'all experiments must be repeatable and doable in any lab' stuff.

See, this is why I like Conuly's friends. They're smaert! :D

[conuly]

Is that a typo, or an attempt at a digraph? *huggles digraphs*

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

mostly an intentional mispelling, as I am confused by this word....'Disssgraaph'.