Word info

unfalsifiable

Speech parts

1. unfalsifiable - Noun

2. unfalsifiable - Adjective

Meaning

unfalsifiable (not comparable)

(of a statement or argument) Not able to be proven false, but not necessarily true.
Antonym: falsifiable

unfalsifiable (plural unfalsifiables)

A statement or argument that cannot be proven false, but is not necessarily true.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Claims of supernatural phenomena like the efficacy of prayer are rendered unfalsifiable by the assertion that "God will not be tested.” (Of course, if the tests had been successful, then testing God would have been fine!) Jerry Coyne

On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming:"Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns-warm or cold-is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it. Ilana Mercer

It would appear that the Keynesian faithful have foisted on free-market capitalists an unfalsifiable theory. Evidence that contradicts it, Keynesian kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory. Ilana Mercer

Economics Karl Popper argued that Marxism shifted from falsifiable to unfalsifiable. Source: Internet

One might at the least be saved from attempting to falsify a non-falsifiable theory, or come to see an unfalsifiable theory as unsupportable. Source: Internet

MWI is considered by some to be unfalsifiable and hence unscientific because the multiple parallel universes are non-communicating, in the sense that no information can be passed between them. Source: Internet

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