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The philosopher Sir Karl Popper was a falsificationist. He used to tell his students at the London School of Economics that, rather than building from truth to truth, knowledge grows from mistake to mistake. We may think something to be true when in fact a host of coincidences makes it falsely appear to be so. However, we do know something to be false when we have made a mistake.