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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
tdaxp 2009
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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.
Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008
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You projected onto me a pure Popperian view of falsifiability, which you reject as justifying creationism! denying evolution!
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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In Popperian terms, theoretical speculation is sometimes right – but it ain't science.
Attached to Strings 2009
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In fact, I tend to distrust Popperian notions of disproof and related notions like doubt.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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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.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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In Popperian terms, they are essentially the same.
Attached to Strings 2009
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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.
Attached to Strings 2009
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This isn't Popperian falsifiability but, again, Popper is wrong.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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