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Falsifiable
Meaning
Adj
●
Logically
capable
of being
proven
false.
●
Capable of being
falsified
or forged.
●
In Epistemology:
The
demarcation
criterion
between
scientific
and
non-scientific
statements
proposed
by Karl Popper. In order to be
ranked
as
scientific
,
statements
or systems of
statements
must be
contradicted
by an
intersubjective
singular existential statement
, also called a
basic
statement
, and not be
contradicted
by another, that is, they must also be
logically
possible.
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Origin
falsifiable
English
-able
English
falsify
English
falsifier
French
falsificare
Latin
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Etym
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Disprovable
Untestable
Testable
False
Unprovable
Empirical
Valid
Replicable
Provable
Verifiable
Deductive
Conclusive
Objective
Accurate
Scientific
Rational
Credible
Factual
Measurable
Defensible
Observable
Positivist
Invalid
Theoretical
Incorrect
Tautological
Generalizable
Unscientific
Generalisations
Irrational
Substantiated
Subjectivist
Suggestible
Subjective
Hypotheses
Correct
Real
True Or False
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