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    Supports→Passing a test does not confirm a theory or give scientists reason to believe the theory is true.

    Avoiding falsification justifies continued employment of the hypothesis and increased efforts to falsify it, not belief in its truth.

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    Karl Popper’s philosophy of science has been influential among economists, as among other scientists. Popper defends what he calls a falsificationist methodology (1968, 1969). Scientists should formulate theories that are “logically falsifiable” — that is, inconsistent with some possible observation reports. “All crows are black” is logically falsifiable; it is inconsistent with (and would be falsified by) an observation report of a red crow. (Probabilistic claims are obviously not in this sens

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