A hypothesis must be testable and able to be proven false to be scientific. This model helps us distinguish between valid and invalid theories.
“A statement is meaningful only if it can be proven false.”
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A hypothesis is often the first step of the scientific method. It is a proposed and still-unproven explanation that can be tested through experiments and observations.
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Premise 1: I can’t explain or imagine how proposition X can be true.
Premise 2: if a certain proposition is true, then I must be able to explain or imagine how that can be.
Conclusions: proposition X is false.
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