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The 57 pages that link to Falsifiability, each with the reason it gives.

• Scientific methodRelated: A hypothesis must risk failure to be meaningfully tested.

• Confirmation biasCompared with: Testing for possible refutation counters the search for confirming instances.

• PositivismCompared with: Karl Popper proposed attempted refutation, rather than verification, as science's defining test.

• Burden of proofRelated: Testable claims invite evidence-based assessment rather than demands for certainty.

• PseudoscienceCompared with: Pseudoscientific claims often avoid specifying observations that would count against them.

• EvidenceCompared with: Evidence can test claims only when some possible observations count against them.

• Karl PopperBroader topic: Popper proposed falsifiability as a criterion for distinguishing empirical science from non-science.

• Scientific skepticismRelated: A claim must risk failure against evidence to be scientifically testable.

• AgnosticismRelated: Debates about divine claims often turn on whether they can be tested or ruled out.

• Inductive reasoningCompared with: Induction supports claims with confirming cases, while falsifiability emphasizes possible counterevidence.

• CounterexampleRelated: A counterexample is a direct way to falsify a universal empirical claim.

• Philosophy of scienceRelated: It offers a proposed criterion for distinguishing scientific claims from non-scientific ones.

• InductionCompared with: Popper emphasized attempts to falsify theories rather than treating observations as inductive verification.

• Scientific theoryRelated: Risky, falsifiable predictions distinguish testable theories from claims insulated from evidence.

• Scientific consensusRelated: Testable claims give scientists shared ways to challenge proposed conclusions.

• Demarcation problemRelated: Karl Popper proposed falsifiability as a criterion separating scientific theories from protected doctrines.

• Abductive reasoningRelated: Testable consequences help distinguish a useful explanatory hypothesis from an unfalsifiable one.

• Scientific modelRelated: A model’s testable implications matter when judging whether evidence can challenge it.

• AbductionRelated: A useful abductive hypothesis should expose itself to possible disconfirmation.

• HypothesisRelated: A hypothesis gains testability when possible evidence could count against it.

• MultiverseRelated: It frames disputes over whether unobservable universes can yield testable consequences.

• Problem of inductionRelated: Falsification shifts emphasis from proving universal laws to exposing them to counterevidence.

• Imre LakatosNarrower topic: It is the Popperian standard Lakatos refined into a historical methodology.

• Modus tollensRelated: A prediction can be rejected by modus tollens when its expected observation fails.

• Experimental physicsRelated: Testable predictions let experiments expose physical claims to possible refutation.

• Psychosexual developmentRelated: Critics question whether the theory’s interpretations yield tests that could disprove them.

• Religious skepticismRelated: It raises the question of whether religious claims make testable predictions or evade disconfirmation.

• Daubert standardRelated: A method’s testability can help courts assess its scientific reliability.

• FallibilismRelated: It makes fallibility operational by identifying evidence that could count against a theory.

• Natural scienceRelated: Testable natural-science explanations expose themselves to potential refutation.

• Paradigm shiftCompared with: Karl Popper treated critical testing as central, unlike Kuhn’s emphasis on paradigm-bound research.

• Pierre DuhemCompared with: Duhem’s emphasis on interconnected assumptions complicates simple accounts of decisive falsification.

• Auxiliary hypothesisRelated: A test's force depends on which auxiliary assumptions are allowed to change after failure.

• Duhem–Quine thesisRelated: The thesis complicates how a failed test can count against a particular claim.

• PseudohistoryCompared with: Claims insulated from possible disproof resist the testing expected of historical explanations.

• Scientific lawRelated: Testable predictions let observations challenge a proposed natural regularity.

• VerificationismCompared with: Popper proposed refutability, rather than verification, as the mark of scientific theories.

• Ad hoc hypothesisRelated: A protective addition can weaken a theory’s falsifiability by ruling out apparent counterexamples.

• Critical rationalismRelated: Popper made potential refutation the boundary between empirical science and claims immune to testing.

• Simulation hypothesisRelated: The hypothesis is disputed partly because proposed tests may not rule out every possible simulation.

• The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsCompared with: Popper treated falsifiability as a criterion for science, unlike Kuhn’s historical focus on paradigms.

• An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingRelated: Modern debates about scientific testing revisit Hume’s scrutiny of evidence and inference.

• Economic methodologyRelated: It frames disputes over whether economic theories expose themselves to meaningful empirical tests.

• HolismRelated: Broad holistic claims need clear conditions that could count against them.

• PastafarianismRelated: The movement’s parody highlights the difficulty of testing supernatural design claims.

• The Open Society and Its EnemiesRelated: Popper’s model of conjecture and criticism informs his case against doctrines that evade refutation.

• Fringe scienceRelated: Claims insulated from possible disconfirmation are difficult to distinguish from unsupported speculation.

• Positive economicsRelated: A positive claim must expose itself to evidence that could count against it.

• ProtoscienceRelated: Risky, testable claims give an immature field ways to learn from failure.

• Criticism of MarxismRelated: Disputes over Marxist predictions ask whether the theory risks clear empirical refutation.