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falsificationism

noun

Etymology

From falsification + -ism.

  1. derived from falsō
  2. derived from falser
  3. inherited from falsen
  4. derived from falsus
  5. inherited from fals
  6. inherited from false
  7. suffixed as falsification — “false + ification”
  8. suffixed as falsificationism — “falsification + ism”

Definitions

  1. A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in…

    A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted, then it is not a scientific claim.

The neighborhood

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