Principlev1PR-272
For every significant belief you hold, explicitly specify…
For every significant belief you hold, explicitly specify the observation or evidence that would cause you to abandon it; if you cannot specify falsification conditions, treat the belief as epistemically suspect.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle derives from Belief Perseverance Against Contradictory Evidence (beliefs persist even when evidence is eliminated) and Demonstrative Knowledge Requires Indemonstrable Foundations (knowledge rests on indemonstrable first principles—but falsifiability is how we distinguish good from bad higher-level claims). It prescribes Popperian falsification discipline as a correction for belief persistence. Actionable and general.