falsificationism

English

Etymology

falsification +‎ -ism

Noun

falsificationism (uncountable)

(epistemology) 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.

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Translations

scientific philosophy

Dutch: falsificationisme n

French: falsificationnisme m

See also

critical rationalism

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