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English: Image to illustrate that the falsifiability criterion, once the language and thus the basic statements are agreed upon, does not need to refer to actual observations at all.
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current18:29, 8 November 2020Thumbnail for version as of 18:29, 8 November 20201,056 × 816 (243 KB)Dominic MayersFalsiable laws changed to falsiable statements. The logical falsifiability requirement is not only for laws. There are falsifiable statements that are not laws. Few conjectures changed to few conjectured universal laws. In the process of making conjectures we pick universal laws among falsifiable statements.
18:12, 8 November 2020Thumbnail for version as of 18:12, 8 November 20201,056 × 816 (232 KB)Dominic MayersMinor: bigger title, centered vertically.
18:08, 8 November 2020Thumbnail for version as of 18:08, 8 November 20201,056 × 816 (231 KB)Dominic MayersSimplified the language
20:42, 3 November 2020Thumbnail for version as of 20:42, 3 November 20201,056 × 816 (242 KB)Dominic MayersThe usual name for the language is the empirical language. Popper says that there is no sharp distinction between an empirical language and a theoretical language since all observations are theory impregnated, but it is clearer in the current context to use empirical language.
19:34, 29 October 2020Thumbnail for version as of 19:34, 29 October 20201,056 × 816 (241 KB)Dominic MayersMinor. Removed a border on a small white patch (below a text) and realigned it.
17:33, 29 October 2020Thumbnail for version as of 17:33, 29 October 20201,056 × 816 (243 KB)Dominic MayersAdded an arrow to indicate that the current conjectures are used to agree on the new starting language, thus completing the cycle. Also improved the use of colors: a text that is about arrow is now in the same color as the arrow.
23:32, 28 October 2020Thumbnail for version as of 23:32, 28 October 20201,056 × 816 (237 KB)Dominic MayersMinor. Only moved a text that was about an arrow closer to that arrow.
23:21, 28 October 2020Thumbnail for version as of 23:21, 28 October 20201,056 × 816 (237 KB)Dominic MayersAdded that the syntactically generated falsifiable laws are typically false.
21:35, 28 October 2020Thumbnail for version as of 21:35, 28 October 20201,056 × 816 (229 KB)Dominic MayersAdded more details about the process from conjecture to corroborations and refutations: it's an experimental process.
21:17, 28 October 2020Thumbnail for version as of 21:17, 28 October 20201,056 × 816 (220 KB)Dominic MayersUploaded own work with UploadWizard

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