falsificationist
Speech parts
1. falsificationist - Noun
2. falsificationist - Adjective
Meaning
falsificationist (not comparable)
(sciences) Of a philosophy, using experiment and observation to attempt to show that a scientific theory is false, rather than attempting to verify it.
falsificationist (plural falsificationists)
An advocate of falsificationism.
Examples
The confirmations of novel predictions resulting from bold conjectures are very important in the falsificationist account of the growth of science.
Establishing by observation that there is just one black swan falsifies "all swans are white". This is an unexceptional and undeniable point. However, using it as grounds to support a falsificationist philosophy of science is not as straightforward as it might seem.