Explain incommensurability

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1. What was the main problem with using the method of verification to justify scientific laws?

2. Briefly explain poppers falsifiability method of doing science and why it is important? What is corroboration?

3. Explain Incommensurability? Explain why Kuhn believed that different paradigms were incommensurable?

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