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Which 20th-century philosopher of science argued that for a theory to be scientific, it must be falsifiable?

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Karl Popper

Popper argued that for a theory to be considered scientific, it must be able to be proven wrong by an observation. He famously used the example that 'all swans are white' is a scientific statement because it can be falsified by finding a single black swan.

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