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falsifiability

noun

Etymology

From falsifiable + -ity.

  1. derived from falsificus
  2. derived from falsificō — “make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”
  3. derived from falsifier
  4. suffixed as falsifiable — “falsify + able”
  5. suffixed as falsifiability — “falsifiable + ity”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being falsifiable.

    • These ideas have many virtues, but falsifiability is not one of them.
    • A proposition is scientific if and only if it is falsifiable. This is the criterion or principle of falsifiability. Falsifiability must be distinguished from falsity, of course.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for falsifiability. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA