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Falsifiability in context

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DescriptionFalsifiability in context.png	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.
Date	28 October 2020
Source	Own work
Author	Dominic Mayers II

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:29, 8 November 2020	1,056 × 816 (243 KB)	Dominic Mayers (talk \| contribs)	Falsiable 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 2020	1,056 × 816 (232 KB)	Dominic Mayers (talk \| contribs)	Minor: bigger title, centered vertically.
	18:08, 8 November 2020	1,056 × 816 (231 KB)	Dominic Mayers (talk \| contribs)	Simplified the language
	20:42, 3 November 2020	1,056 × 816 (242 KB)	Dominic Mayers (talk \| contribs)	The 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 2020	1,056 × 816 (241 KB)	Dominic Mayers (talk \| contribs)	Minor. Removed a border on a small white patch (below a text) and realigned it.
	17:33, 29 October 2020	1,056 × 816 (243 KB)	Dominic Mayers (talk \| contribs)	Added 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 2020	1,056 × 816 (237 KB)	Dominic Mayers (talk \| contribs)	Minor. Only moved a text that was about an arrow closer to that arrow.
	23:21, 28 October 2020	1,056 × 816 (237 KB)	Dominic Mayers (talk \| contribs)	Added that the syntactically generated falsifiable laws are typically false.
	21:35, 28 October 2020	1,056 × 816 (229 KB)	Dominic Mayers (talk \| contribs)	Added more details about the process from conjecture to corroborations and refutations: it's an experimental process.
	21:17, 28 October 2020	1,056 × 816 (220 KB)	Dominic Mayers (talk \| contribs)	Uploaded own work with UploadWizard