English Explanatory Dictionary

falsificationist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of a philosophy, using experiment and observation to attempt to show that a scientific theory is false, rather than attempting to verify it.
noun
  1. An advocate of falsificationism.

Word forms

falsificationist falsificationists

Etymology

From falsification + -ist.

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