A Introduction
The preceding chapter reviewed the basic features of the modern scientific hypothesis, but you may have some lingering questions about it or have heard criticisms of it. As I noted in the Introduction, objections to the hypothesis or hypothesis-based science come from a number of different directions and are driven by themes that recur throughout the book.
This chapter takes up one small collection of criticisms that mainly have to do with a key property of the hypothesis: namely, that it is falsifiable in principle. These criticisms of Karl Popper's and John Platt's programs, collectively called “Conjectures and Refutations,” are common complaints of philosophers and one or more of them may have occurred to you. I've put a few somewhat technical topics in an optional section at the end of the chapter, which you can skip if you're so inclined.3.
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