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In article <1189@aecom.YU.EDU>, werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner) writes:
> 
> 	Just so we deal in no uncertain terms:
> 
> 	Here is the best definition of the domain of science that I have
> ever heard formulated:
> 
> 	"Science deals in disprovable assertions.  If something can not
> be, in theory at least, disproven, by experiment and/or observation, then
> it is not in the domain of science."
> 
> 	Correlary: nothing can be proven in science, only supported or
> suggested.  However, every good scientific theory suggests situations
> which would be impossible if the theory were valid, and hence provides
> a means to disprove itself.
> 

Craig, you put quotes around the statement but don't give the author.
This sounds very much like Karl Popper, whom I consider one of the
sanest people ever to write on philosophy of science.  The statement I
remember went something like 'A proper scientific hypothesis states
the conditions under which it can be disproved.'

Would you please give the author and the work in which the statement
appeared?  Thank you.

					Carole Ashmore