Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.
- adjective able to be proven false, and therefore testable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Logically capable of being proven false.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation
Etymologies
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Examples
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That ID may or may not be falsifiable is not as much of a concern to me as finding helpful conceptual tools.
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All scientific assertions, proven or unproven, must be falsifiable, that is, indicate a possible set of observable facts that disprove them.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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These ideas are neither testable nor falsifiable, which is why their proponents avoid peer review in respected scientific journals and take their pitch directly to the public through popular books and a well-financed PR machine.
MAIL CALL 2007
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Although a good number of Quranic revelations can be identified as falsifiable through scientific means, the revelation about the non-physical nature of biological information appears quite suitable for the purpose.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science PZ Myers none@example.com 2010
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Although a good number of Quranic revelations can be identified as falsifiable through scientific means, the revelation about the non-physical nature of biological information appears quite suitable for the purpose.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science PZ Myers none@example.com 2010
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Its claims are not falsifiable, which is why economists can disagree so violently among themselves.
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Its claims are not falsifiable, which is why economists can disagree so violently among themselves: a rarer spectacle in science, where disputes are usually resolved one way or another by hard data.
Global Guerrillas 2010
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Its claims are not falsifiable, which is why economists can disagree so violently among themselves: a rarer spectacle in science, where disputes are usually resolved one way or another by hard data.
Global Guerrillas 2010
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It would seem that, now that Obamacare's passed, there's a certain diffidence among its supporters about actually making any kind of falsifiable predictions of its alleged benefits: "Forgive me, but to my admittedly naive ears, this sounds like what you are saying is that you think that if we cover the uninsured, we will have lower mortality rates, fewer medical bankruptcies, and a lower deficit."
Defining Moment Steven Barnes 2010
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Now, the most "falsifiable" theories are the ones which are actually false or totally absurd.
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