naive falsificationism

noun

Definitions

  1. An invalid scientific philosophy in which any single instance of refuting data is enough…

    An invalid scientific philosophy in which any single instance of refuting data is enough to falsify the entire claim.

    • Under naive falsificationism, the birth control pill would be considered as ineffective since there are instances (3 in 1000) in which it does not work.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for naive falsificationism. 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