For Popper, science can be distinguished from pseudo-science:
A. only by recognized practitioners of science.
B. because the former is falsifiable.
C. because the latter has been proven false.
D. because all swans are white.
E. because the former fails to make predictions.
Answer: B
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A) a moral judgment. B) a prudential judgment. C) a legal judgment. D) an aesthetic judgment.
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What will be an ideal response?
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A. Chomsky is a leftist, and so he cannot be trusted. B. Some less studied languages do not seem to use such rules of grammar. C. Only the English language uses adjectives and adverbs. D. Sixty percent of the world's languages have fewer than ten thousand speakers.