Some academic approaches are good scientific methodology and some are not. Those who are in a position to seek scientific methodology are concerned about falsifiability.
What is in a position to do otherwise? There is a position that uses a weaker constraint than disprovability: “the system is inconsistent.
For example, a system that defines “positive number: a non-negative number minus zero” and “negative number: a non-negative number minus zero” is consistent. tautology “X is X” is also consistent.
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