Falsifiability is the demarcation criterion proposed by Karl Popper as opposed to verificationism: " statements or systems of statements, in order to be ranked as scientific, must be capable of conflicting with possible, or conceivable observations ".

Falsifiability is considered a positive ( and often essential ) quality of a hypothesis because it means that the hypothesis is testable by empirical experiment and thus conforms to the standards of scientific method.

Falsifiability is an important concept within the creation – evolution controversy, where proponents of both sides claim that Popper developed falsifiability to denote ideas as unscientific or pseudoscientific and use it to make arguments against the views of the respective other side.

Falsifiability has even been used in court decisions in this context as a key deciding factor to distinguish genuine science from the religious.

Falsifiability means a result can be disproved.

Falsifiability was one of the criteria used by Judge William Overton to determine that ' creation science ' was not scientific and should not be taught in Arkansas public schools ( see McLean v. Arkansas ).

Time loop logic, coined by the roboticist and futurist Hans Moravec, is the name of a hypothetical system of computation that exploits the Novikov self-consistency principle to compute answers much faster than possible with the standard model of computational complexity using Turing machines.

The floating point DSP TMS320C3x, which exploits delayed branch logic, has as many as three delay slots.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Hrothgar's court bard sings of the encounters at Finnsburg ( lines 1068 - 1159 ), and improvises the tale of Beowulf's exploits in a complimentary comparison of the Geatish visitor with Sigemund ( lines 871 - 892 ) ; ;

Confirmation is afforded by English and Danish traditions relating to two kings named Wermund and Offa of Angel, from whom the Mercian royal family claimed descent and whose exploits are connected with Angeln, Schleswig, and Rendsburg.

The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh ( who calls himself " The Black Adder ") in his various attempts to increase his standing with his father and his eventual quest to overthrow him.

Despite the step up, his scoring exploits continued and he was runner-up only to Ian Rush in the goalscoring charts the following season and then went one better as he was the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984 – 85 with 24 goals.

Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic police thriller dealing with the exploits of the cyborg Motoko Kusanagi, a member of a covert operations division of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission known as Section 9.

It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama, with a plot that revolves around the exploits of a young man named Harold ( played by Bud Cort ) intrigued with death.

The sequence of events of the fifth and sixth centuries is particularly difficult to access, peppered with a mixture of mythology, such as the characters of Hengist and Horsa, and legend, such as St Germanus's so-called " Alleluia Victory " against the Heathens, and half-remembered history, such as the exploits of Ambrosius Aurelianus and King Arthur.

The series features the exploits of irascible pensioner Victor Meldrew, who after being forced to retire from his job as a security guard, finds himself at war with the world and everything in it.

Moreover, the ease with which the Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula was directly and immediately continued by the exploits of conquistadors beyond the Atlantic clearly shows that for Spaniards at the time, conquest of non-Christian territory and its transformation into a Catholic, Spanish-speaking land were legitimate, whether or not a claim of prior possession of the land could be advanced.

This variant is most commonly encountered in explanations of why the number of known vulnerability exploits for products with the largest market share tends to be higher than a linear relationship to market share would suggest, but is also a factor in product choice for some large organisations.

The history of the hour record is replete with exploits by some of the greatest names in cycling from both road and track racing ( including, among others, Major Taylor, Henri Desgrange, Fausto Coppi, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Francesco Moser, Miguel Indurain and Tony Rominger ).

Much of the poem is clearly at variance with known historical facts and records of the period and is either fabricated using traditional chivalric motifs or ' borrowed ' from the exploits of others and attributed to Wallace.

Word of her exploits had encouraged her family, and biographers agree that she became more confident with each trip to Maryland.

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His affair with the queen was intolerable to the public at large, although sexual infidelity was not unusual in royal circles, and the king himself was notorious for his sexual exploits.

Combined with his daring raids against the Spanish and his great victory over them at Cadiz in 1587, he became a famous hero -- his exploits are still celebrated — but England did not follow up on his claims.

" Although Roddenberry conceived the character as being " in a very real sense ... ' married ' " to the Enterprise, Kirk has been noted for " his sexual exploits with gorgeous females of every size, shape and type "; he has been called " promiscuous " and labeled a " womanizer ".

Lord Raymond, who came to renown for his exploits in the war between Greece and Turkey, has returned to England in search of political position, and soon Perdita and Evadne both fall in love with him.

By the eve of the Revolution, Putnam had become a relatively prosperous farmer and tavern keeper, with more than a local reputation for his previous exploits.

: In respect to his actual exploits and his actual character, however, Carson was not overrated.

His exploits had included an 1857 visit to India, where he had won the respect of the natives as a hunter of man-eating tigers.

With respect to time-of-flight 3D laser scanner the triangulation laser shines a laser on the subject and exploits a camera to look for the location of the laser dot.

They generally do not agree with the antireligious views held by secular Marxists, but do agree with many of the economic and existential aspects of Marxist theory, such as the idea that capitalism exploits the working class by extracting surplus value from the workers in the form of profits and that wage-labor is a tool of human alienation that promotes arbitrary and unjust authority.

He exploits this to make his latest attempt to kill Bart legally over state lines, but is foiled again and gets taken away by state police.

More recently Selwyn College has seen the foundation of an extreme sports society which has shocked the nation with tales of its courageous and daring exploits ; notable feats include ironing on the roof of the Pitt building and an attempt to wake board behind the college men's 1st VIII.

Inspired by the true life exploits of Rodney Ansell, the film was made on a budget of under $ 10 million as a deliberate attempt to make a commercial Australian film that would appeal to a mainstream American audience, but proved to be a worldwide phenomenon.

Shane threatens Vic with revealing their illegal exploits should Vic attempt to arrest him for Lem's killing, while Shane gets in over his head with the Armenians.

The Zeta Project follows the exploits of Zeta and Ro as they attempt to prove that he is genuinely non-violent, whereas the NSA agents pursuing him believe that the terrorists he was investigating before going rogue have reprogrammed him for some unknown purpose.

Many exploits rely upon port scans to find open ports and send specific data patterns in an attempt to trigger a condition known as a buffer overflow.

His unpublished diaries hint, among other exploits, at a successful rescue attempt of one of the Czarist-Russian Grand Duchesses, possibly Tatiana ( see The Romanov Conspiracies by Michael Occleshaw ).

One of Loeb's first infamous journalistic exploits was the publishing of his own baptismal certificate on the front page of both Vermont papers in an attempt to disprove rumors of his Jewish ancestry.

As his legend became popular, various anti-authoritarian exploits were attributed to him, including a supposed assassination attempt against the Oda clan warlord Oda Nobunaga.

After this failure he returned to New Granada to attempt to repeat the Admirable Campaign's great exploits, but his followers refused to back him.

The dolphin trainer exploits them as free labour and has no intention of training them, and in an attempt to ditch them, leaves all his cash with them to have to practice " rhythm " using Dance Dance Revolution.