falsifiable

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1. falsifiable - Adjective

2. falsifiable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.

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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable. Walter Lang

Acceptance is dependent upon the falsifiable hypothesis surviving tests. Source: Internet

Adolf Grünbaum argues that psychoanalytic based theories are falsifiable, but that the causal claims of psychoanalysis are unsupported by the available clinical evidence. Source: Internet

And an unfalsifiable—thus unscientific, perhaps metaphysical—concept in one era can later, through evolving knowledge or technology, become falsifiable, thus scientific. Source: Internet

As the stone presented a hieroglyphic and a demotic version of the same text in parallel with a Greek translation, plenty of material for falsifiable studies in translation was suddenly available. Source: Internet

A statement is called falsifiable if it is possible to conceive of an observation or an argument which negates the statement in question. Source: Internet

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