Is FND falsifiable?
Christoff Trüter
Spousal caregiver
Karl Popper's criterion of falsifiability, first presented in Logik der Forschung (1934) and later translated into English as The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959), is one of the most influential frameworks for separating science from pseudoscience.
FND: Philosophy Masquerading as Diagnosis - Part 2
Christoff Trüter
Spousal caregiver
The first thing to note is that FND is a product of medical constructivism (in contrast to medical realism). So if we are to buy into this philosophy, what exactly does that mean?
FND: Philosophy Masquerading as Diagnosis - Part 1
Christoff Trüter
Spousal caregiver
FND is a matter of philosophy, not fact. It is a disorder that was conceptually defined into existence, unlike diseases discovered through measurable physiology. The very idea that the expression of a symptom that cannot be explained somehow correlates to a "brain software" problem is speculative and should be treated as such.
