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jaydeehess wrote:
Theories that arise strictly from a mathematical answer to a physical question would then be less exposed to falsifiability if there is no way to test the theory.
If there is no way to test the theory, then it isn't exposed to fasifiability at all.
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I suppose I was getting at the idea that falsifiability would be a continum from those theories that are easily tested and thereby fasifiable to those with zero testability and therefore not fasifiable. The problem therefore with my statement was that I got lazy and said "less" and "no way" in the same sentance.
Fasifiability also is an evolving matter. There are likely(though I cannot think of one off the top of my head right now) theories that were thought unfasifiable 20, 30 60,100 years ago that today, with new technology and equipment are testable and thereby fasifiable. A new mathematical construct of a theory may not immediatly be seen to make predictions in the present day that can be tested but future mathematicians working on it may find such a thing. To say that any
scientific (and here I exclude all religious theories that in essence require no testability for it's adherents) theory is 100% unfasifiable is itself an unfasifiable statement!
My head hurts
This must be philosophy
Soup, so glad you decided to rejoin the conversation. Now will you live up to the fanfare? The curtain is up, the overture has been played, time for the opening lines to be delivered.