falsifiable

IPA: fˈɔɫsʌfaɪʌbʌɫ

adjective

  • Logically capable of being proven false.
  • Capable of being falsified or forged.
  • (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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Examples of "falsifiable" in Sentences

  • The majority of astrology is falsifiable.
  • It needs to be falsifiable in order to be classifiable as a scientific subject.

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