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Every Genuine Test Of A Theory Is An Attempt To Falsify It, Or To Refute It.

Man, Some Modern Philosophers Tell Us, Is Alienated From His World: He Is A Stranger And Afraid In A World He Never Made. Perhaps He Is; Yet So Are Animals, And Even Plants. They Too Were Born, Long Ago, Into A Physico-chemical World, A World They Never Made.

It Must Be Possible For An Empirical System To Be Refuted By Experience.

All Life Is Problem Solving

The Survival Value Of Intelligence Is That It Allows Us To Extinct A Bad Idea, Before The Idea Extincts Us.