Why Is Falsification Important? - Deepstash

Why Is Falsification Important?

Adopting an attitude of falsifiability does a few key things:

  • it helps us to avoid many cognitive biases that can hinder intellectual growth and good decision making
  • it makes us clearer thinkers by forcing us to be specific about what we think we know, and what evidence we have
  • it boosts our creative thinking by making us naturally more receptive to new ideas and helping us more quickly process them

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“An idea is something that won’t work unless you do.” - Thomas A. Edison

“In so far as a (scientific) statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.”

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