"falsifiable" meaning in English

See falsifiable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more falsifiable [comparative], most falsifiable [superlative]
Etymology: falsify + -able Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|falsify|able}} falsify + -able Head templates: {{en-adj}} falsifiable (comparative more falsifiable, superlative most falsifiable)
  1. Logically capable of being proven false. Translations (able to be proven false): 可證偽 (Chinese Mandarin), 可证伪 (kězhèngwěi) (Chinese Mandarin), 證偽 (Chinese Mandarin), 证伪 (zhèngwěi) (Chinese Mandarin), falzifikovatelný (Czech), falsifieerbaar (Dutch), falsifioituva (Finnish), falsifioitava (Finnish), falsifiable (French), falsifizierbar (German), widerlegbar (German), cáfolható (Hungarian), falsificabile (Italian), фальсифицируемый (falʹsificirujemyj) (Russian), опровержимый (oproveržimyj) (Russian), falsable (Spanish), falsifierbar (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-falsifiable-en-adj-tAVXeOa5 Disambiguation of 'able to be proven false': 79 9 13
  2. Capable of being faked or forged. Translations (capable of being falsified or forged): falsifiable (French), falsificabile (Italian), falsificable (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-falsifiable-en-adj-O3BoN-wt Disambiguation of 'capable of being falsified or forged': 34 63 3
  3. (epistemology) 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. Categories (topical): Epistemology
    Sense id: en-falsifiable-en-adj-W3N~4Eqo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -able Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 21 54 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -able: 23 18 59 Topics: epistemology, human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: falsifiability, nonfalsifiable, unfalsifiable Related terms: falsificationism, falsify

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