falsifiable
/ˈfɒl.sɪˌfaɪ.ə.bəl/adj
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1
Logically capable of being proven false.
2
Capable of being faked or forged.
3
The demarcation criterion between scientific and non-scientific statements proposed by Karl Popper. In order to be ranked as scientific, statements or systems of statements must be contradicted by an intersubjective singular existential statement, also called a basic statement, and not be contradicted by another, that is, they must also be logically possible.
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