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refutationism

noun

Etymology

From refutation + -ism.

  1. borrowed from refūtātiō
  2. borrowed from refutation
  3. suffixed as refutationism — “refutation + 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 it is not a scientific claim.

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