Stan Pawlukiewicz wrote:
> Just Cocky wrote:

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>> String theory is a speculative theory. But it's scientific because it
>> is, in principle, falsifiable.
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> So if it's falsified, then it's a valid scientific theory? Please
> explain this further. I don't get it.

He didn't write "falsified", but "falsifiable". If no circumstance can
demonstrate that a statement is false, that statement is not
falsifiable. "The sum of the squares on the two sides is equal to the
square on the hypotenuse" is falsifiable. That's just a way to say that
it's testable while specifying what a test must be able to do.

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Jerry
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