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I've encountered one resounding real life situation wherein failure to correctly identity and consider objectively falsifiable paths leads to both immediate & catastrophic consequences: namely, in the game of chess.
In chess, when one considers a candidate move, it is absolutely critical to consider all the possible alternative moves of the opponent.
Since we are human, we cannot generally consider the entire set of candidate responses in finite time (indeed, neither can any existing computer). (There are exceptional circumstances, however, such as when a line is "forcing", meaning that the opponent only has one legal move at each iteration of the sequence.)
In short, a failure to falsify the viability of a candidate move, or set of moves, will often have a catastrophic result on one's game, especially when playing against a computer.
One only need fail to consider a single potential effective counter-move for the entire line to collapse as a successful one.
Chess players call this process of identifying a weak link in the opponent's chain of reasoning a "refutation."
Tony Vladusich /
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