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The word ‘proof’ should strictly only be used when we are dealing with deductive inferences…. Popper claimed that scientists only need to use deductive inferences…. So if a scientist is only interested in demonstrating that a given theory is false, she may be able to accomplish her goal without the use of inductive inferences…. When a scientist collects experimental data, her aim might be to show that a particular theory…is false. She will have to resort to inductive reasoning…. So Popper’s attempt to show that science can get by without induction does not succeed.
