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You're right in that I was oversimplifying.
A claim is falsifiable if there exists a possible observation or experiment that could prove it wrong.
Physicalism has no such experiment.
Comment by sajberhippien at 24/02/2025 at 14:23 UTC
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That's very different from what you said in your last post; you weren't simplifying but making an unrelated claim.
And you are correct; physicalism is unfalsifiable. It also is not a scientific theory, and as such is unrelated to Popper's stance on falsifiability as a central requirement of scientific inquiry. Another example of a stance that is unfalsifiable would be, well, Popper's stance on falsifiability.