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	Karl Popper
		For this reason, he argues that a theory is deemed to be better than another if (while unfalsified) it has greater empirical content, and therefore greater predictive power than its rival.
		Popper eliminates the contradiction by rejecting the first of these principles and removing the demand for empirical verification in favour of empirical falsification in the second.
		Faced with this choice, we can only eliminate those theories which are demonstrably false, and rationally choose between the remaining, unfalsified theories.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/popper (8225 words)

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		Mystics are forever free to claim that anyone who doesn't feel what they feel is somehow "doing it wrong".
		The conclusions of mysticism are usually unfalsifiable or inconsequential and thus propositionally meaningless.
		Some mystics compare meditation to advanced mathematics and claim that both yield conclusions that can only be verified by adept practitioners.
	humanknowledge.net /HumanKnowledge.txt (17891 words)

	Shakespeare Authorship
		Charlton Ogburn's book The Mysterious William Shakespeare is generally considered the most thorough exposition of the Oxfordian case; it is certainly one of the most passionately argued.
		However, Ogburn has a distressing tendency to brush aside facts which he finds inconvenient, and to invent or distort other "facts" to suit his purpose; he employs a blatant double standard in evaluating evidence which makes his thesis unfalsifiable.
		David Kathman's article Why I'm Not an Oxfordian, which originally appeared in The Elizabethan Review, looks in detail at some of the many problems with Ogburn's book and explains why academic Shakespeareans do not take Ogburn and his Oxfordian brethren seriously.
	www.shakespeareauthorship.com (6376 words)

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