According to Falsificationism, if a piece of evidence is very UNLIKELY to occur, but the posterior probability of some hypothesis relative to that evidence is greater than the prior probability of the hypothesis, then

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According to Falsificationism, if a piece of evidence is very UNLIKELY to occur, but the posterior probability of some hypothesis relative to that evidence is greater than the prior probability of the hypothesis, then