Answer by JimmyJames for What is an example of a non-falsifiable claim?
Consider the Silurian Hypothesis:The Silurian hypothesis is a thought experiment[1] which assesses modern science's ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization, perhaps several million...
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I am going to go a bit further than Marco Ocram's answer about gods. Any question about the existence of something is not falsifiable unless the "something" is well defined, and the term "existence" is...
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If I make a claim about the existence of an entity which I define as being beyond the scope of any possible test, then by definition you cannot falsify the claim. That's why you can't disprove the...
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Basically any statement that starts with one day there will be is unfalsifiable unless it involves a contradiction. You cannot check all the one days to find out.For example:"One day there will be a...
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Falsifiability is not an either/or proposition, but a matter of degree, and even the degree is subject so dispute. It has probably never been the case in science that a useful, accepted theory was...
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Drawing inspiration from Descarte's evil demon, the statement "Everything I experience is a hallucination, and I am actually a brain floating through space" cannot be falsified, since any empirical...
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There are lot of falsifiable statements over the internet, an it is easy to make up one falsifiable statement.Such as:Earh is flat ... Falsifiable through satellite image.Earth is round ... Falsifiable...
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