falsifiable
adjective
able to be altered or represented falsely.
falsifiability
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a word derived from
falsifiable.
Example Sentences
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The resulting data famine gave rise to a new theoretical framework that omits any obligation for falsifiability.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2021
Freud’s claims skirted falsifiability, the quality of being testable, a bedrock of the scientific method.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2017
He says autoethnographic studies cannot claim to have "falsifiability, testability, representability, extrapolation, prediction, and other conditions securing reliable scientific enquiry".
From BBC ● May 9, 2017
After a hypothesis has been repeatedly tested for falsifiability through documented and independent studies, it eventually becomes accepted as a scientific theory.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
In any event, you can probably see why most psychological scientists fret over the falsifiability of Freudian theories.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2011
