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38: Generativism 2: How It's Going (with Taylor Miller and Adam Tallman)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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What Is Falsifiability?

F falsifiability is this idea that comes from Carl Popper. And basically the idea is that scientific conjectures can never really be proven right. So you don't have a theory unless you can in principle think of a way to show that it's wrong. If you can find one black swan that demolishes the entire edifice.

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