Unfalsifiable

Quick meaning: Unfalsifiable is an adjective meaning (of a statement or argument) Not able to be proven false, but not necessarily true.

Meaning

(of a statement or argument) Not able to be proven false, but not necessarily true.

More Meanings

1. A statement or argument that cannot be proven false, but is not necessarily true.

Example Sentences

Unfalsifiability: The main problem with any particular conspiracy theory is not that it's wrong, but that it's inarguable; not that it's false, but that it is unfalsifiable.

Conspiracy theories are designed to be unfalsifiable: every criticism can be dismissed as "whitewashing by the conspirers", and every concerns can be summarized as "part of the greater conspiracy".

Popper introduced the so-called ‘demarcation problem’ of identifying what distinguishes pseudoscience from science. Popper's suggestion, as I explain below, is that, unlike real science, pseudoscience is unfalsifiable.

Word Forms

• unfalsifiables

Antonyms for unfalsifiable

Common opposites include falsifiable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include undisprovable, nonfalsifiable, nonrefutable, unprovable, unrefutable, unverifiable.

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