| 释义 |
falsifiable, a.|ˈfɒlsɪfaɪəb(ə)l|
[f. falsify v. + -able. Cf. F. falsifiable.]
That may be falsified.
1611Cotgr., Falsifiable, which may be falsified, adulterated, forged, sophisticated. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne II. 412 The senses are the sovereign Lords of his knowledge, but they are uncertain and falsifiable in all circumstances. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 252 The Vedántins believe the world to be falsifiable. 1959Cambr. Rev. 30 May 568/2 Suppose now that a statement was meaningful if and only if it was falsifiable. 1964W. P. Alston Philos. Lang. iv. 70 We should also note the specially wide sense in which the positivists use ‘verifiability’. In this use, it is really equivalent to the disjunction ‘verifiable or falsifiable’, that is, ‘capable of being established as true or false’. |