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Originally Posted by cyrek1
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By the way, why does a theory have to be falsifiable to be scientific? It seems to me that science is supposed to be portrayed as the truth.
Is the truth supposed to be falsifiable?
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Science and truth are not the same. At best, science is a tentative picture of the truth.
But you need to have a way of telling how good that picture is, otherwise all theories would be equally legitimate, including theories that contradicted each other. That's where falsifiability (via empirical evidence) comes in. It's a way of discarding the bad apples.