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Title: Green cheese is unripe cheese, which has a yellowish color. Many hundreds of years ago, someone said ... Post by: agilleland on Jan 21, 2018 Green cheese is unripe cheese, which has a yellowish color. Many hundreds of years ago, someone said that the Moon was made of green cheese. Was this model falsifiable in its time? Is it falsifiable now? Explain.
What will be an ideal response? Title: Green cheese is unripe cheese, which has a yellowish color. Many hundreds of years ago, someone said ... Post by: omar.quesadamed on Jan 21, 2018 Just because something is the same color as something else does not make it
identical. This was an analogy, and while analogies are often productive, at the time the model certainly was not falsifiable, because there was no way to reach the Moon's surface and see what it was made of. There have been trips to the Moon, and we now know a lot about the composition of lunar soils. Because we can refer to these lunar soils (or conceivably return to the Moon), the model is capable of being shown to be false. |