A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Behaviorism, Logical Positivism, Counterexample
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Book: brysbaert, m. & rastle, k. (2013). What is science?" in: historical and conceptual issues in psychology (second edition, chapter 9, pp. Is psychology a science?" in: historical and conceptual issues in psychology (second edition, chapter 10, pp. Articles: hendriks, f. , kienhues, d. & bromme, r. (2016). Trust in science and the science of trust. " in: trust and communication in a digitized world (pp. Science and non-science proceed by constant interactions between observation and interpretation, but science questions itself and non-science doesn"t. What distinguishes them is that scientific theories are falsifiable. Falsificationism view within philosophy of science that statements are scientific only if they can be falsified empirically. Falsifiable if it rules out range of outcomes or there is agreement on observations that would be inconsistent with theory and refute the theory. It is impossible to prove truth of inductive conclusion, but it is possible to prove falseness of it .
