if a theory cannot be EMPERICALY disproved..........?

Question

but can be shown false in theory, then is it disproved?

or does something need hard emperical evidence in order for it to be proved or disproved?

Answer 1

A theory is a theory .If it can be proved or disproved it ceases to be a theory.(for example the" big bang" theory will never be proved or disproved using scientific reasoning )

Answer 2

A person is more likely to remember what one sees and hears and generally senses than something they do not. Meaning is contingent but essence for something is universal to know that something as its kind.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm

"Atheism, as the denial of this unreality, has no longer any meaning, for atheism is a negation of God, and postulates the existence of man through this negation; but socialism as socialism no longer stands in any need of such a mediation. It proceeds from the theoretically and practically sensuous consciousness of man and of nature as the essence. Socialism is man’s positive self-consciousness, no longer mediated through the abolition of religion, just as real life is man’s positive reality, no longer mediated through the abolition of private property, through communism.

Communism is the position as the negation of the negation, and is hence the actual phase necessary for the next stage of historical development in the process of human emancipation and rehabilitation. Communism is the necessary form and the dynamic principle of the immediate future, but communism as such is not the goal of human development, the form of human society. [34]"

Karl Marx
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Private Property and Communism

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm

Does that need proving or disproving?