Falsificationism
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Falsificationism is a noun meaning (epistemology, philosophy) 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, then it is not a scientific claim.
Meaning
(epistemology, philosophy) 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, then it is not a scientific claim.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include refutationism, epistemicism, factualism, verificationism, naturalism, antimetaphysicalism.
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