falsifyˈfɔl sə faɪ
falsify (v)
- present
- falsifies
- past
- falsified
- past participle
- falsified
- present participle
- falsifying
English Definitions:
falsify, distort, garble, warp (verb)
make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent (verb)
tamper, with the purpose of deception
"Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
falsify (verb)
prove false
"Falsify a claim"
falsify (verb)
falsify knowingly
"She falsified the records"
interpolate, alter, falsify (verb)
insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
falsify (Verb)
To alter so as to be false; to make incorrect.
falsify (Verb)
To misrepresent.
falsify (Verb)
To prove to be false.
falsify
Falsifiability is a deductive standard of evaluation of scientific theories and hypotheses that was introduced by the philosopher of science Karl Popper in his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934). He proposed it as the cornerstone solution to both the problem of induction and the problem of demarcation. A theory or hypothesis is falsifiable (or refutable) if it can be logically contradicted by an empirical test using existing technologies. Popper insisted that, as a logical criterion, falsifiability is distinct from the related concept "capacity to be proven wrong" discussed in Lakatos' falsificationism. Even being a logical criterion, its purpose is to make the theory predictive and testable, and thus useful in practice. Popper opposed falsifiability to the intuitively similar concept of verifiability that was then current in logical positivism. His argument goes that the only way to verify a claim such as "All swans are white" would be if one could theoretically observe all swans, which is not possible. Instead, falsifiability searches for the anomalous instance, such that observing a single black swan is theoretically reasonable and sufficient to logically falsify the claim. On the other hand, the Duhem–Quine thesis says that definitive experimental falsifications are impossible and that no scientific hypothesis is by itself capable of making predictions, because an empirical test of the hypothesis requires one or more background assumptions.According to Popper there is a clean asymmetry on the logical side and falsifiability does not have the Duhem problem because it is a logical criterion. Experimental research has the Duhem problem and other problems, such as induction, but, according to Popper, statistical tests, which are only possible when a theory is falsifiable, can still be useful within a critical discussion. Philosophers such as Deborah Mayo consider that Popper "comes up short" in his description of the scientific role of statistical and data models.As a key notion in the separation of science from non-science and pseudo-science, falsifiability has featured prominently in many scientific controversies and applications, even being used as legal precedent.
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