MEANING
The capacity of a claim to be tested in ways that could show it to be false.
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Words that belong together
- empirical falsifiability
- criterion of falsifiability
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The proposed account lacked a clear condition of falsifiability.
She asked how the theory’s falsifiability could be assessed.
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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