Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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The requirement that a written thesis name in advance the specific, observable events that would prove it wrong.
What separates analysis from hoping. A thesis that cannot be wrong cannot be right either, because every development will be reinterpreted as confirmation.
The property of a framework that no observation can disprove, because it can always be relabelled to fit whatever happened.
When an Elliott count fails, the standard response is to renumber it rather than to conclude the method was wrong. A framework that cannot be wrong cannot be tested.