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The law is falsifiable and much more useful from a scientific point of view, if the method to detect the neutrino is specified. [42] Maxwell said that most scientific laws are metaphysical statements of this kind, [ 43 ] which, Popper said, need to be made more precise before they can be indirectly corroborated.
Popper's falsifiability criterion: For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be falsifiable. [ 7 ] Sagan standard : Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Persuasive definition – purporting to use the "true" or "commonly accepted" meaning of a term while, in reality, using an uncommon or altered definition. (cf. the if-by-whiskey fallacy) Ecological fallacy – inferring about the nature of an entity based solely upon aggregate statistics collected for the group to which that entity belongs.
Informally, a statement is falsifiable if some observation might show it to be false. For example, "All swans are white" is falsifiable because "Here is a black swan" shows it to be false. The apparent contradiction seen in the case of a true but falsifiable statement disappears once we know the technical definition.
The definition, in the book Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy, [37] alludes to the loss of craft skills in handling quantitative information, and to the bad practice of achieving precision in prediction (inference) only at the expenses of ignoring uncertainty in the input which was used to formulate the prediction.
The main discussion of these abbreviations in the context of drug prescriptions and other medical prescriptions is at List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Some of these abbreviations are best not used, as marked and explained here.
Greek νεκρός (nekrós), dead body, corpse, dying person necrosis, necrotizing fasciitis: neo-new Greek νέος (néos), young, youthful, new, fresh neoplasm: nephr(o)-of or pertaining to the kidney: Greek νεφρός (nephrós), kidney nephrology: nerv-of or pertaining to nerves and the nervous system (uncommon as a root: neuro-mostly ...
For example, when a pregnancy test indicates a woman is not pregnant, but she is, or when a person guilty of a crime is acquitted, these are false negatives. The condition "the woman is pregnant", or "the person is guilty" holds, but the test (the pregnancy test or the trial in a court of law) fails to realize this condition, and wrongly ...