falsifiable
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- adjective
- /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪəbl/
- Formal
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falsable
- Some scientific questions are clearly and unambiguously falsifiable; thus, they are actually scientific in the Popperian sense.
- testable and falsifiable
But just because the hypothesis is falsifiable doesn't mean it's good science.
- But just because the hypothesis is falsifiable doesn't mean it's good science.
- And I start to do different tests to see, is this falsifiable?
- Although it is a guess, AKA the hypothesis needs to be falsifiable, right?
- Has anyone heard that term falsifiable hypothesis?
- But truth is a very, we like to pretend that it's a very concrete, widely agreeable, completely falsifiable distinction.
- So God loves men is similar to the strangers on our side and many other significant statements in not being conclusively falsifiable.
Examples
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We believe in testing theories to make sure that they are falsifiable and reproducible.
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A theory is considered falsifiable if it can be proven wrong by an experiment.
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Has anyone heard that term falsifiable hypothesis?
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I pointed out that string theory is falsifiable and gave an example.
Blog text (33) -
It is not falsifiable, not in the short run.
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A mathematical equation is, by its nature, falsifiable, whereas a religious belief, by its nature, is not.
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He argued that in order for a theory to be scientific, it must be falsifiable or able to be proven wrong.
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A basic tenet of science is that scientific theories must be testable or falsifiable.
Academic text (2018) -
Scientists prefer hypotheses that are falsifiable because they can be tested through experiments.
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For a claim to be scientific, it must be falsifiable; otherwise, it cannot be empirically tested.
Synonyms
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You can check by experiment or evidence
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A claim that testing can show is true or false
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New evidence can show a claim is wrong
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Evidence can show that it is false
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Tests or evidence can show that it is false
Can be shown wrong by facts or proof
Antonyms
How Testable
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Morphology
Etymology
Falsifiable comes from the Latin word falsus meaning 'false' and the ending -able meaning 'able to be'. So a falsifiable idea is one that can be shown 'false' by a test or observation.