What Is the Hypothetico-Deductive Method, and Is It What Science Runs On?

Charles Gray
The Academy of You
Published in
2 min readApr 24, 2020

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The hypothetico-deductive method is an attempt to describe the scientific method as a way of using empirical claims to populate deductive arguments. This keeps science empirical while yielding conclusions produced by valid, deductive arguments ( in other words, known to be true).

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