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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Testable but not falsifiable?
Brian I Crother1, Christopher M Murray2
1Department of Biological Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, 70402, USA.
Abstract:
We are puzzled by a recent comment that suggested that historical hypotheses can be tested but are unfalsifiable. We argue that phylogenetic hypotheses are falsifiable without the aid of a time machine and that they are like any other hypothesis: they are tentative knowledge propositions capable of falsification with character evidence.
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