PrepTest 89, Section 3, Question 24
A theory cannot properly be regarded as empirical unless there is some conceivable observation that, if the theory were false, would refute it.
A theory cannot properly be regarded as empirical unless there is some conceivable observation that, if the theory were false, would refute it.
A theory cannot properly be regarded as empirical unless there is some conceivable observation that, if the theory were false, would refute it.
A theory cannot properly be regarded as empirical unless there is some conceivable observation that, if the theory were false, would refute it.
The principle above most helps to justify which one of the following?
Since no one was present at the origin of the universe, the Big Bang theory of the universe's origin is not an empirical theory.
Since set theory is not an empirical theory, there is no conceivable observation that would refute it.
Psychoanalysis is such a flexible theory that no conceivable observation could show it to be false, so it is not an empirical theory.
There are conceivable observations that would refute quantum theory, so quantum theory is an empirical theory.
The theory of relativity must be true since, although scientists have conceived of observations that would refute it, it has not yet been refuted.
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