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falsifiability Philos.|ˌfɔːlsɪfaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. falsifiable a. + -ity.]
The quality or fact of being falsifiable. Also attrib.
1937Philos. Sci. IV. 26 We may take Popper's principle of falsifiability as an example. 1945Mind LIV. 119 The concepts of absolute and of relative verifiability (and falsifiability) are of an entirely different character. 1959Cambr. Rev. 30 May 567/2 Whether or not the verifiability criterion is a criterion of the meaningfulness of a statement or of the scientific character of a statement, the defects which it has in either case can be reproduced quid pro quo for the falsifiability criterion. 1965J. D. North Measure of Universe xiv. 295 Not all propositions can have an inherent degree of falsifiability. |