to falsify
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7.2
- verb
- /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪ/
:
refutar
- So does the discipline make claims that can in principle be falsified by evidence?
- falsify hypotheses
- difficult to falsify
- evidence falsifies
The wrongness in any factor falsifies the conclusion.
- The wrongness in any factor falsifies the conclusion.
- So a premise, A premise can be completely falsified because of a bias.
- So does the discipline make claims that can in principle be falsified by evidence?
- That's essentially just allowing the theory to never be falsified.
- So even if they can measure this signal, it would neither confirm nor falsify inflation.
- And the existence of atheists who don't rape and murder and so on seems to falsify that claim.
- It was not something that you could test, and therefore it was not able to be falsified or affirmed.
- So her hypothesis, her driving hypothesis for her entire research has been falsified in the most astounding of ways, right?
- I know that there's nothing lurking down there and I have reliable, difficult to falsify evidence that suggests that Joe is a reliable, good, non bigoted guy.
- There's no circumstances under which we could falsify them, but they're still true.
- There's nothing that you can use to falsify, at least for him, his theory about things.
- So you're going to say if you cherish this worldview, that information that conflicts with it was falsified or that was wrong, they don't know what they're doing.
- And if you can get to the ABCD, that's great, except that now you've falsified this one because a key feature of it is that it's inexpressible.
Examples
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For example, attempts to falsify this system have already been uncovered in Nigeria.
Academic text (2016) -
The WHO database reveals that, contrary to common belief, generic medicines are also frequently falsified (figure 8).
Academic text (2016) -
So even if they can measure this signal, it would neither confirm nor falsify inflation.
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Scholars might also try to falsify all or critical elements of the theory.
Academic text (1999) -
A proposition deserves some degree of trust only when it has survived serious attempts to falsify it.
Academic text (2013) -
Political science lacked solid and systematic evidence with which to confirm or falsify prevalent interest group theories.
Academic text (1993) -
So her hypothesis, her driving hypothesis for her entire research has been falsified in the most astounding of ways, right?
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Therefore, they are appropriate for confirming or falsifying my hypotheses about knowledge as the trigger of international change.
Academic text (1990) -
Like any good hypothesis, Kennedy's definition identifies means by which it can be falsified.
Academic text (2007) -
The investigator found evidence that the suspect attempted to falsify his alibi.
Synonyms
88
6.2
To show that an idea or statement is false using evidence
66
4.5
To show that an idea or claim is not true
57
5.7
To show that an idea or claim is false with clear facts
26
8.6
Make a person or thing seem different from how they really are
1
8.4
To show that something is not true
1
7.4
To show by facts that an idea or belief is not true
1
8.7
Make something seem different from what it really is
To show a person's idea is wrong using facts or clear arguments
Antonyms
- Specialized
35
6.7
Show that something is real or that a person is who they say they are
How Conclusive
12
7.2
57
5.7
21
7.0
158
3.5
- Formal
552
4.3
777
3.5
∞
2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Falsify comes from the old Latin word falsus meaning 'false', from fallere 'to deceive'. So to falsify a claim is to show it 'not true'.