Скачать или смотреть The Zero Probability Problem: Science Through the Lens of Falsification

This source challenges the common belief that science is a system for providing absolute proof or high-probability facts. It explains the zero probability problem, which argues that universal laws can never be logically proven because they make infinite claims based on finite observations. Since traditional probability fails to distinguish between scientific laws and nonsense, the text introduces falsifiability as the true marker of a scientific theory. According to this view, a theory’s strength is measured not by how much it allows, but by the bold prohibitions it makes against certain observations. Science is thus presented as a survival-of-the-fittest process where ideas are tentatively accepted only after surviving rigorous attempts at refutation. Ultimately, scientific knowledge is described as provisional and battle-tested rather than permanently established.