This idea was dismissed by Laudan as "toothless" because it is unable to perform the "stable-cleaning"duties it for which it was posited.
This idea was dismissed by Laudan as "toothless" because it is unable to perform the "stable-cleaning"duties it for which it was posited. The "hard core" of a program is protected from this by an auxiliary beltaccording to the author of Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. An early version of this idea can only beapplied to bundles, rather than things in isolation, according to the Duhem-Quine thesis. A modified versionof this idea applies it in degrees, rather than all-or-none; that is its (*) "sophisticated" version. This idea wasposited as a solution to the problem of demarcation and the problem of induction. A classic example of doing this isfinding a black swan. For 10 points, name this criteria that distinguishes a scientific statement from a non-scientificone by its ability to be proven wrong, expounded by Karl Popper.
This idea was dismissed by Laudan as "toothless" because it is unable to perform the "stable-cleaning"duties it for which it was posited.
falsifiability [accept word forms of "falsify"; prompt on "testing a hypothesis" or similar because of the Duhem-Quine clue]