excerpted from The Logic of Scientific discovery (London: Hutchinson, 1959) by Karl Popper A scientist ... And what do we call 'empirical science' ? Now it is far from obvious, from a logical point of ...

Later, the philosopher Karl Popper argued the defining characteristic of real science is that it must be capable of being debunked, in other words, it must be falsifiable. This has long been ...

Distinguishing between proper science and pseudoscience is sometimes difficult. One popular proposal for demarcation between the two is the falsification criterion, most notably contributed to by the ...