falsify
IPA: fˈɔɫsʌfaɪ
verb
- (transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
- (transitive) To misrepresent.
- (transitive) To prove to be false.
- (transitive) To counterfeit; to forge.
- (transitive, accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
- (transitive, obsolete) To baffle or escape.
- (transitive, obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
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Examples of "falsify" in Sentences
- I didn't use the word "falsify", I used the word "disconfirming" … they are not necessarily the same thing.
- If these 'actions' please them, the investigating officers would then "falsify" their investigation results all the way up to make our unit look good.
- Instead, he argues that the logic of scientific research is a critical method in which scientists do their best to "falsify" their hypotheses and theories.
- Which brings me to if we are able to find an object of sufficient mass within the Schwarzschild radius, which normally would continue to collapse into a gravitational singularity (Black Hole) but has not, that would disprove the theory of Black holes right there, or in other words falsify them. "
- Also, as pointed out before, if we are able to find an object of sufficient mass within the Schwarzschild radius, which normally would continue to collapse into a gravitational singularity (Black Hole) but has not, that would disprove the theory of Black holes right there, or in other words falsify them.
- It looks like you have addressed T&G's main arguments (eg, about the 2nd law), but I wonder if it might be appropriate to put in a brief description of what it means to "falsify" something in the scientific sense -- ie, essentially what T&G must show (and failed to show) to make their case that there is no greenhouse effect:
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