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unfalsifiable

adj

Etymology

From un- + falsifiable.

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

Definitions

  1. Not able to be proven false, but not necessarily true.

    • Conspiracy theories are designed to be unfalsifiable: every criticism can be dismissed as "whitewashing by the conspirers", and every concerns can be summarized as "part of the greater conspiracy".
    • Popper introduced the so-called ‘demarcation problem’ of identifying what distinguishes pseudoscience from science. Popper's suggestion, as I explain below, is that, unlike real science, pseudoscience is unfalsifiable.
    • Unfalsifiability: The main problem with any particular conspiracy theory is not that it's wrong, but that it's inarguable; not that it's false, but that it is unfalsifiable.

  2. A statement or argument that cannot be proven false, but is not necessarily true.

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