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mmirate on June 3, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Defeat of Reason

Layman's hopefully-dumb question here: if a theory has no observable consequences, then what is it even saying? (or doing, or etc)

slowmovintarget on June 3, 2018 [–]

If it isn't falsifiable, then it isn't scientific.

I'm cribbing that from reading the Wikipedia page on Logical Positivism, specifically the criticism of positivism by Popper.

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