Kekulé Escapes, Popper Notwithstanding

Jerome A. Berson

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Ad-hoc hypotheses are forbidden to rescue threatened theories in Popper's falsification method. Kekulé attempted to save his benzene theory by such a device, but because organic chemists did not apply Popper's rule, Kekulé's theory survived as a cornerstone of modern science.

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