FALSIFIABLE

confirmable, verifiable, falsifiable

(adjective) capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

falsifiable (comparative more falsifiable, superlative most falsifiable)

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.

Source: Wiktionary


Fal"si*fi`a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. OF. falsifiable.]

Definition: Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. Johnson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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