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Old 14-07-2003, 07:55 PM
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Default Do Theories Have to be Testable to be Scientific?

Mike Ruskai wrote:

Depends on what you mean by "testable". For a theory to be scientific, it
must at least be falsifiable. Whether that's the same as "testable" or
not is mostly a matter of semantics.


For a theory to be useful it must make predictions, and is thereby
testable and falsifiable.