refutationism

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 it is not a scientific claim.

Word forms

refutationism

Etymology

From refutation + -ism.

Related words

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