A Theory Predicts That All Swans Are White

question 41

Multiple Choice

A theory predicts that all swans are white.A thousand people go out into the field and identify the color of the swans they see.Their results reveal that,of the 10,000 swans they saw,all were white.It follows that

• A) the swan theory is a falsifiable theory.
• B) the swan theory is correct.
• C) the evidence fails to reject the swan theory.
• D) a and b
• E) a and c

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