Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be tested.
- In law: Capable of being devised or given by will or testament.
- Capable of witnessing or of being witnessed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being tested or proved.
- adjective Capable of being devised, or given by will.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Susceptible to being
tested . - adjective With respect to the
scientific method , capable of being proven true or false. - adjective law Capable of being devised, or given by
will .
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Examples
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The tendency to demand hypotheses be formulated in testable ways?
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The effect he seems to have in mind as most testable is uncertainty.
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But his religious views apparently contain testable but false, propositions about the natural, physical world, propositions which contradict his scientific writings.
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You must have a core to the research program, which, together with auxilliary hypotheses strongly warrant certain testable conclusions.
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When the cover story appeared, it was merely the usual canards, claimimg among other things that ID is not testable, which is clearly not true.
Britain's New Scientist drops the ball on intelligent design? Denyse O 2005
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Many a scientific hypothesis originated as a testable, that is, confirmable or disconfirmable knowledge-claim; but when difficulties arose, often by
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT FEIGL 1968
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“No one is using the scientific method or offering any kind of testable hypothesis; just look backwards, find whichever market indicator helps support the anti-Obama thesis, and let the hackery commence.”
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No one is using the scientific method or offering any kind of testable hypothesis; just look backwards, find whichever market indicator helps support the anti-Obama thesis, and let the hackery commence.
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“No one is using the scientific method or offering any kind of testable hypothesis; just look backwards, find whichever market indicator helps support the anti-Obama thesis, and let the hackery commence.”
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No one is using the scientific method or offering any kind of testable hypothesis; just look backwards, find whichever market indicator helps support the anti-Obama thesis, and let the hackery commence.
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