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@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Science ultimately is about making the best guesses possible, or making *less
   91    91 bad* guesses over time.  One key concept here is Popper's falsification:
   92    92 
   93    93 Before Popper, people would have seen a white swan and proposed the theory
   94    -1 that "all swans are white". They would than have looked at 100 swans and, if
   -1    94 that "all swans are white". They would then have looked at 100 swans and, if
   95    95 they were all white, concluded that the theory was correct. Popper instead
   96    96 argued that you can never prove a theory. Instead, it is only possible to
   97    97 *disprove* a theory (by finding a black swan).[^3]