falsification

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Core to this process is "falsification" - narrowing down what might be true by ruling out what can't be true.

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  1. The act of falsifying or making false; false representation; the act of deceptively altering, adulterating, counterfeiting, misrepresenting, etc.: as, the falsification of weights and measures, of goods, or of coin; falsification of a record, or of an author's meaning. By misconstruction of the sense, or by falsification of the words. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. To counterfeit the dead image of a king in his coin is a high offence; but to counterfeit the living image of a king in his person exceedeth the falsifications. Bacon.
  2. A showing to be false or erroneous; confutation: as, the falsification of a prediction; the falsification of a charge.
  3. In law: The offense of falsifying a record. See falsify, v. t.
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  • Glamour is a form of falsification, but falsification to achieve a particular purpose. —  Virginia Postrel on glamour
  • Brothers was indicted last month on 10 counts of unsworn falsification, all misdemeanors, for allegedly misstating trips on several travel forms in
  • This truly monstrous endeavor -- which was launched with precisely the same kind of falsification, manipulation and blood-firing propaganda that attended the Nazi invasion of Poland, and has left more than a million innocent people dead and almost five million driven from their homes —  Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
  • Within the 33 behaviors about which the subjects were asked, not all were the sort of behavior that would rise to the level of misconduct (like fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism). —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • It is a commonplace about both these systems that far from challenging "falsification," as Professor Popper would say, they endeavour to impose finality and they equate criticism with rationalized "resistance." —  Books, Inq. — The Epilogue
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  1. from Old French (and F.) falsification = Spanish falsificacion = Portuguese falsificação = Italian falsificazione, from Middle Latin falsificatio(n-), from falsificare, falsify: see falsify.
 

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