What Does It Mean To Be Falsified?

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You hear about ghost stories all the time, they’re always on TV, there’s even a show called celebrity ghost stories. Many people believe in ghosts, they believe they can talk to and see people (that have died) on the other side. They believe they have a special gift that allows them to do this. Typically people don’t believe in ghosts because of their religion, personal beliefs, or just because it sounds so bizarre to them. This is where people become skeptic. They start to question how a person could actually see/hear/talk to ghosts. For any claim to be true it has to be falsifiable. Falsify means to prove wrong. So in this case if someone was telling you how they saw a ghost, do they have any evidence to prove that they actually saw

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