ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Falsificationist

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Falsificationist is an adjective meaning An advocate of falsificationism.

Meaning

An advocate of falsificationism.

More Meanings

  1. (sciences) Of a philosophy, using experiment and observation to attempt to show that a scientific theory is false, rather than attempting to verify it.

Example Sentences

A strict falsificationist position is thus inappropriate in research on meaningful data.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include empirical, nonempirical, quasi-scientific, scientifico-philosophical, theoretic, proscience.

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