Testability in Systematics

These problems indicate that in order to further investigate the nature of testability in systematics, we have to expand our discussion of the basic problems of empiricism to the problem of basic statements. 

To enable development by distributed teams, work units must be separated and partitioned with clear dependencies, architectural conventions and rules must be explicit, and interfaces must be specified unambiguously. Components will get assembled by persons different from the developers, potentially long after they are built the relationships between the implementations, interface specifications, and eventual user requirements must be testable in a systematic way. 

Scientific method (Section 6.6) A systematic approach to establishing new knowledge in which observations lead to laws, laws to theories, theories to testable hypotheses, and hypotheses to experiments. 

Adoption of a many-body theory that is systematically improvable (at least in principle) and testable for its numerical convergence ... 

Here is an example of a small-scale, testable parapsycholo-gical theory concerning the nature of psychically detectable objects. It was formulated by William Roll of the Psychical Research Foundation [104], The theory postulated that physical objects have some sort of psychical properties that are created by their individual associational histories. This leads to a testable prediction If the associational history of an object is varied systematically, it should be possible to make that object more or less psychically detectable in proportion to the differences in its history. That is, if I have one object that has been... 

Systematics is formulated in singular statements. A lot of misunderstanding has surrounded, and continnes to surround, the issne of whether or not Popper claimed testability and potential falsifiability for strictly universal statements only or for strictly singular statements... 

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