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Verbal·Standard English Conventions·Form, Structure, and Sense

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Karl Popper’s argument that scientific hypotheses must be theoretically refutable, termed the criterion of falsifiability, rejects the confirmationist __________ verifiability as the essential criterion for scientific hypotheses. To Popper, a statement like “all spiders have eight legs” is scientific not because it can be verified, or proved true, but because it can theoretically be proved false.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A

argument, it posits

B

argument positing

C

argument and posits

D

argument, positing