Consequently the severity of the test to which a theory can be subjected, and by means of which it is falsified or corroborated, is all-important.
For example, in the case of the two alternative generalizations with exceptions, the principle of maintaining a universal generalization until it is falsified leads to an unreliable method (cf. [Kelly 1996, Ch. 9.4]).
So LOTH is not committed to there being a single representational system realized in the brain, nor is it committed to the claim that all mental representations are complex or language-like, nor would it be falsified if it turns out that most aspects of mental life other than the ones involving propositional attitudes don't require a LOT.
(Almost all of the responses to his tweet were some variation of "THAT NEVER HAPPENED," but Wedlock posted about the incident on Facebook, as did one of Airlie's friends. That doesn't mean it did happen, but does mean that we'd applaud their commitment to social media bullshit, if it were falsified).
Although the theory of a mechanical input modulating the flow of ions through an ion pore has been a useful tool, it is falsified by experimental data in the literature and can be definitively falsified by a proposed experiment.
One major problem in this equation of hypothesis with falsifiable conjecture is that it is usually not the case that a hypothesis is abandoned or substituted when it is "falsified".
Whether it's falsifying documents or fudging an interest rate quote, many of the actors of these schemes knowingly cheated in some form or another.
"I really don't think I am falsifying it when I say I never had much hope of having an impact on psychiatry.
When they re-filed for foreclosure in February 2013, Mains contested it, arguing the documentation was falsified to paper over the ownership questions.
Reading Tolstoy, Adam reflects that even that great master of the texture of et cetera itself was too dramatic, too tidy, too momentous: "Not the little miracles and luminous branching injuries, but the other thing, whatever it was, was life, and was falsified by any way of talking or writing or thinking that emphasized sharply localized occurrences in time".
Lamarck's idea about the inheritance of acquired characteristics was a hypothesis that was falsified; hence, it did not achieve the status of a scientific theory.
