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- adjective Of or relating to the
philosophy of philosopher Karl R. Popper.
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Examples
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Confirmatory research is also what we might call Popperian science, after the famous philosopher of science
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The non-nativist language learner as envisaged by Chomsky in the original version of the poverty of the stimulus argument, in other words, is limited to a kind of Popperian methodology ” one that involves the enumeration of all possible grammatical hypotheses, each of which is tested against the data, and each of is rejected just in case it is explicitly falsified.
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You projected onto me a pure Popperian view of falsifiability, which you reject as justifying creationism! denying evolution!
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In Popperian terms, theoretical speculation is sometimes right – but it ain't science.
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In fact, I tend to distrust Popperian notions of disproof and related notions like doubt.
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I attempted to make it as clear as possible that I am not holding some rigid Popperian view of what is acceptable as science.
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In Popperian terms, they are essentially the same.
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For sure, we can falsify certain conceptions of the laws of physics, but we can't formally prove them (in the Popperian sense).
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In Popperian terms, they are essentially the same.
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This isn't Popperian falsifiability but, again, Popper is wrong.
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