Full Idea
Popper's mistake is to hold that disconfirmation and elimination work exclusively through refutation.
Gist of Idea
We don't only reject hypotheses because we have falsified them
Source
comment on Karl Popper (The Logic of Scientific Discovery [1934]) by Peter Lipton - Inference to the Best Explanation (2nd) 05 'Explanation'
Book Reference
Lipton,Peter: 'Inference to the Best Explanation (2nd ed)' [Routledge 2004], p.87
A Reaction
The point is that we reject hypotheses even if they have not actually been refuted, on the grounds that they don't give a good explanation. I agree entirely with Lipton.
Related Idea
Idea 16829 We reject deductive explanations if they don't explain, not if the deduction is bad [Lipton]