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[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

A weatherman predicting rain has made a falsifiable prediction, how does that relate to Popper?

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

how does that relate to Popper?

When a weatherman's prediction is falsified, the model itself is not disproven. The fact that the practitioners of that discipline stick with it even when a prediction is falsified starts to look like the pseudoscience side of Popper's falsifiability criterion.

this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
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