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Ideas for Crispin Wright, Karl Popper and GE Hughes/M Cresswell

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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

3856	Good theories have empirical content, explain a lot, and are not falsified [Popper, by Newton-Smith]
	Full Idea: Popper's principles are roughly that one theory is superior to another if it has greater empirical content, if it can account for the successes of the first theory, and if it has not been falsified (unlike the first theory).
	From: report of Karl Popper (The Logic of Scientific Discovery [1934]) by W.H. Newton-Smith - The Rationality of Science I.6