Empirical disciplines require some sort of falsifiability.
It's called the Popperian condition of falsifiability.
This is the principle of falsifiability, famously associated with the philosopher Karl Popper.
The philosopher Karl Popper called this the notion of falsifiability of scientific theories.
In a piquant way, Wootton, while making little of Popper's criterion of falsifiability, makes it up to him by borrowing a criterion from his political philosophy.
According to Popper, such pseudosciences as astrology, metaphysics, Marxist history, and Freudian psychoanalysis are not empirical sciences, because of their failure to adhere to the principle of falsifiability.
Even the criterion of falsifiability, for example, is still a useful benchmark for distinguishing science and pseudoscience, as a first approximation.
Criterion of falsifiability, in the philosophy of science, a standard of evaluation of putatively scientific theories, according to which a theory is genuinely scientific only if it is possible in principle to establish that it is false.
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Since then, sociobiological hypotheses regarding parenthood have been able to meet the standard of falsifiability insisted on by Karl Popper and others, and in many cases they have turned out to be well-founded.
Naturally enough, this objection attracted the sympathetic attention of Popper, who had proposed a principle of "falsifiability" as a test of whether a given hypothesis is genuinely empirical (and therefore scientific).
