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Practice Question

Experiments cannot validate hypotheses, only falsify them. The statement above can be restated in which of the following ways?

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Correct Answer:

A hypothesis that has not been falsified remains provisional.

Rationale:

🧪Scientific hypotheses are never fully proven; they remain valid only until evidence emerges to disprove them.

🔬This statement reflects Karl Popper’s philosophy of science, emphasizing falsifiability as a core principle.

📉Rather than proving a hypothesis absolutely, experiments test whether it can be rejected, thus supporting or refining it.

📚The correct answer underscores that scientific understanding is always tentative, subject to revision with new data.

📌Core Message

A hypothesis remains tentatively accepted until disproven, highlighting the self-correcting nature of the scientific method through falsifiability.

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