falsificationism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted, then it is not a scientific claim.

Word forms

falsificationism

Etymology

From falsification + -ism.

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