If the theory fails the test, it’s falsified: throw it out, and go back to step (1). If it passes, keep testing it in different ways. Call this approach falsificationism. Unlike enumerative induction, it is a caricature of the scientific method—and, like all caricatures, it captures some of the central features of its subject matter, but its details shouldn’t be taken too literally, and if they are, it is likely to mislead.
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