• candybrie@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    How science often works is you try to disprove things, and if you can’t, you accept them as likely to be true. So, to show that the thesis is complete and accurate, they’re trying to find places where it’s incomplete or inaccurate. In the defense, your job is to defend against these attempts.

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      6 months ago

      So trying to destroy it and making sure its accurate and complete turns out to be the same thing