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Meaning of "falsifiability" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FALSIFIABILITY

falsifiability  [ˌfɔːlsɪˌfaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FALSIFIABILITY

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determiner
exclamation
Falsifiability is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FALSIFIABILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

falsifiability

Falsifiability

Falsifiability or refutability of a statement, hypothesis, or theory is an inherent possibility to prove it to be false. A statement is called falsifiable if it is possible to conceive an observation or an argument which proves the statement in question to be false. In this sense, falsify is synonymous with nullify, meaning not "to commit fraud" but "show to be false". Some philosophers argue that science must be falsifiable. For example, by the problem of induction, no number of confirming observations can verify a universal generalization, such as All swans are white, yet it is logically possible to falsify it by observing a single black swan. Thus, the term falsifiability is sometimes synonymous to testability. Some statements, such as It will be raining here in one million years, are falsifiable in principle, but not in practice. The concern with falsifiability gained attention by way of philosopher of science Karl Popper's scientific epistemology "falsificationism".

Definition of falsifiability in the English dictionary

The definition of falsifiability in the dictionary is the quality of being falsifiable.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FALSIFIABILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
inability
ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FALSIFIABILITY

false-hearted
falseface
falsehood
falsely
falseness
falsers
falsetto
falsework
falsidical
falsies
falsifiable
falsification
falsified
falsifier
falsifies
falsify
falsish
falsism
falsities
falsity

WORDS THAT END LIKE FALSIFIABILITY

agility
credibility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of falsifiability in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «falsifiability» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FALSIFIABILITY

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The translations of falsifiability from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «falsifiability» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

证伪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

falsabilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

falsifiability
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

falsifiability
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

falsifiability
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фальсифицируемость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

falsifiability
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মিথ্যা-প্রতিপাদনযোগ্যতার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

falsifiabilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Falsifiability
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Falsifizierbarkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

反証可能性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Falsifiability
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

falsifiability
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாசாங்கு தன்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खोटेपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yanlışlanabilirlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

falsificabilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

falsyfikowalność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фальсифицируемость
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

falsifiability
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διαψευσιμότητας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

falsifieerbaarheid
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

falsifierbarhet
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

falsifiserbarhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of falsifiability

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FALSIFIABILITY»

The term «falsifiability» is normally little used and occupies the 133.453 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FALSIFIABILITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about falsifiability

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FALSIFIABILITY»

Discover the use of falsifiability in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to falsifiability and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Theology and Meaning: A Critique of Metatheological Scepticism
But, it could be urged, the falsifiability of the entailing G^statement is not necessarily deducible by modus tollens from the entailment relation plus the falsifiability of the empirical entailment. If it were, it would seem that the entailing G^statement ...
Raeburne Seeley Heimbeck, 1969
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What is this Thing Called Science?
CHAPTER 6 Sophisticated falsificationism, novel predictions and the growth of science Relative rather than absolute degrees of falsifiability The previous chapter mentioned some conditions that an hypothesis should satisfy in order to be ...
Alan Francis Chalmers, 1999
3
The Psychology and Law of Criminal Justice Processes
Following this sentence are three quotations from treatises, which not only speak of empirical testing, but one of which states that the '"criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability.'" I defer to no one in ...
Roger J. R. Levesque, 2006
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Handbook of Clinical Psychology, Adults
Falsifiability Philosophy and science are both empirical, that is, they are both based on experience. Religion is also empirical in the sense that it is based, in part, on formative personal experiences including, but not limited to, conversions,  ...
Michel Hersen, Alan M. Gross, 2008
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How Do You Know You're Not Wrong?: Responding to Objections ...
Popper rightly saw this lack of falsifiability as the undermining credibility of Marxism. Some people have applied this criterion to belief in God. The former atheist Antony Flew once formulated the falsification principle: a statement is meaningful ...
Paul Copan, 2005
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Theory Building in Applied Disciplines
knowledge with regard to falsifiability: observational and categorical. Observational statements simply report the existence of things (e.g., there is a black cat). Categorical statements aim to categorize all instances of a thing (e. g., all cats are ...
Richard A. Swanson, Thomas J. Chermack, 2013
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The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism: Re-evaluation and ...
If by falsifiability in general we understand this logical relationship, then the same fact might also be expressed as follows. Falsifiability in general and empirical falsifiability do not coincide. The first characteristic of scientific statements is ...
Friedrich Stadler, 2003
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Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition
many of the problems about science and the growth of knowledge referred to above, it was his falsifiability criterion, his solution to Hume's problem of induction , that unwittingly played a key role in promoting the relativist cause, and, even more ...
Geoff Jordan, 2004
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Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science
2.8 POPPER'S CRITERION OF FALSIFIABILITY If the hypothesis of intelligent design is not refuted by the fact that organisms have imperfect adaptations, maybe the problem with the hypothesis is that it can't be refuted by any observation at all ...
Elliott Sober, 2008
10
Learning from Data: Concepts, Theory, and Methods
Popper's definition of falsifiability can be presented in mathematical terms as follows: A set of functions has the Popper dimension h if (a) there exists any h samples that cannot falsify this set and (b) there exist h + 1 samples that falsify this set.
Vladimir Cherkassky, Filip M. Mulier, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FALSIFIABILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term falsifiability is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Limits of Science - Verification and Falsification
Another popular term that has entered Scientism and naturalism lexicon is that of falsifiability, falsifiable evidence. I cannot say how many times, ... «News24, Jul 15»
2
Pope Francis's New Encyclical Isn't What You Think
... to be, especially when we're dealing with a heavily politicized and predictive science that isn't subject to the usual constraints of falsifiability. «The Federalist, Jun 15»
3
Where the mind is without fear
Pushed to a wall, my only religion is science because it subscribes to falsifiability. Which means, if anything is proven wrong, science has the humility to accept it ... «Livemint, Jun 15»
4
Testing Scientific Theories
The philosopher Karl Popper argued that falsifiability rather than confirmation is at the heart of science. Popper believed that the main role of ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
5
How Many Test Failures Are Acceptable?
This is the idea of falsifiability which we learn from science. I can never prove the theory that “All Swans are white”, but as soon as I see a black ... «SYS-CON Media, Jun 15»
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Conspiracy Theories: The Public Trust Skepticism Factor
It is not their lack of falsifiability per se, but a belief in an increasingly massive conspiracy theory that undermines the grounds for believing in ... «The People's Voice, Jun 15»
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'Note Book' Author Jeff Nunokawa Talks Literature In The Age Of …
You've basically just described a great deal of vigor from John Stuart Mill to Popper, falsifiability, right? Gotcha! That's false, and here's why we ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
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Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg Still Dreams of Final Theory
Weinberg: I don't agree. First of all, this business of falsifiability is a silly criterion imposed on physical science by Karl Popper, who was looking ... «Scientific American, May 15»
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Dragons and Venus Arise to Fool
They argue falsifiability, once a foundation of the scientific method, should be discarded, along with other "F" words such as fidelity, frugality, ... «SkyandTelescope.com, Apr 15»
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Data science still woefully short on science
He called it "falsifiability," or the ability to test a statement. Popper argued that while it's impossible to prove something true, it's very possible to ... «TechRepublic, Mar 15»

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