Increase Knowledge by Failing to Refute, but With Good Reasons to Fail

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increase knowledge by failing to refute, but with good reasons to fail

• see,
  • principe de réfutabilité,
  • p-value,
  • confirm first and try to reject after,

If you just try to reject an hypothesis, you will always find a good reason to. Therefore, if you try to apply the scientific method by trying to refute hypothesis, you might not do anything at all. It is important to find a way to decide whether you have a good reason to refute the hypothesis.

You may have to first try to confirm the hypothesis, believe in it and then try hard to break it in good faith.

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