Stuart SutherlandTo establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.
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If a theory must be proved false to be established as a fact, then the theory itself is weak. In other words, it would be as if someone had to disprove their own theory in order for it to be accepted as a truth. In this way, the theory is actually invalid before it is even proven.
Source: Irrationality
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