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- noun The quality of being
falsifiable .
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Examples
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And while falsifiability is an important heuristic, it is not the philosopher's stone.
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As William Dembski points out, testability as well as falsifiability is a two edged sword.
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Also, responding to one of the comments, I don’t think that falsifiability or non-falsifiability is the only relevant criterion; falsifiability on examination turns out to be more complicated than usually expressed.)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paternalistic versus Therapeutic? 2010
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Remember - before the notion of falsifiability, there were various notions of “verifiability” which were dominant in philosophy of science.
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Science is based upon the idea of falsifiability; that is, something is assumed to be the case until it is proven not to be.
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Science is based upon the idea of falsifiability; that is, something is assumed to be the case until it is proven not to be.
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As KSorenson has already noted, relativity was the theory that inspired the notion of falsifiability in the first place.
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As KSorenson has already noted, relativity was the theory that inspired the notion of falsifiability in the first place.
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As KSorenson has already noted, relativity was the theory that inspired the notion of falsifiability in the first place.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BenO 2009
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[recall the falsifiability criterion of the Scientific Method: “you can never prove a Theory, you can only DISPROVE it”]
Should She or Shouldn’t She? JoAnne 2005
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