Falsifiability (Introduction)

by romansh ⌂ @, Sunday, June 21, 2015, 18:04 (3234 days ago) @ David Turell

Auguste Comte, Cours de la Philosophie Positive, 1835.
>... we shall never be able by any means to study their [stars] chemical composition or their mineralogical structure ... Our knowledge concerning their gaseous envelopes is necessarily limited to their existence, size ... and refractive power, we shall not at all be able to determine their chemical composition or even their density...-Fourteen years later Kirchhoff discovered the chemical composition of a gas could be deduced from its electromagnetic spectrum and people turned their spectrometers to the Sun and the stars.-I would argue a loving God in any common use of the word loving is falsifiable.


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