[spunkets]

"It all, very well, could be a false premise. which again, for all practical purposes, amounts to nothing more than speculation and conjecture"

A theory isn't a premise.

"A theory can be overturned if new phenomena are observed that directly contradict the theory."

The correspondence principle applies to established theories. Those are theories that are backed with substantial evidence. What that means is that the old theory must appear as a special case of any newer, more general theory.

[csense]

A theory isn't a premise.

But an hypothesis is.

The correspondence principle applies to established theories. Those are theories that are backed with substantial evidence. What that means is that the old theory must appear as a special case of any newer, more general theory.

Falsification does not require the invocation of an alternate theory.