How To Use Falsifiable In A Sentence
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Modern science demands falsifiable theories with physical evidence, therefore creationism is simply not a scientifically acceptable theory
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Excuse me for for butting in… But does it matter if a theoretical framework is unfalsifiable?
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This level of detail doesn't automatically make her story ‘true,’ but it does make her story falsifiable, by which I mean possible to disprove.
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It is clear that psychoanalysis is not going to be falsifiable (in principle) in the way that the physical or biological sciences are - that is, by producing an experiment that can conclusively falsify it.
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Unfortunately, this lands him in the predicament of propounding a nonfalsifiable theory.
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It is a shame that so much effort has had to be expended on such an easily falsifiable premise.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is not falsifiable and makes no predictions about future scientific discoveries.
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Because of this, anecdotes are not reproducible, and are thus untestable; since they cannot be tested, they are not falsifiable and are not part of the scientific process…
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Be that as it may, the main problem I have with the view that all apparent errors are problems with the interpreter rather than the Bible itself is that it seems impossible to disprove - in other words, it is unfalsifiable.
Limits of Literalism
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Essentially unfalsifiable, it was a matter of faith.
The Times Literary Supplement
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scientific theories must be falsifiable
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There was one reader who emailed me something about the scientific method that I think is important, which is that if hypotheses have to be falsifiable, results have to be reproducible.
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Of course Darwin's theory is eminently falsifiable, in a million possible ways.
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The wording muddies the claim's logic - it's unfalsifiable - and allows the writer to avoid a lot of expository work.
The Times Literary Supplement
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A word of warning first: this post is speculative in nature as I have no proof, nor do I think that what I say is provable, verifiable or falsifiable.
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For science to be useful and valid it has to be able to make predictions in the form of a falsifiable hypothesis.
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They seem to think that one can make up any theory, no matter how ridiculous, and unless it is dramatically falsifiable, it's just as valid as a theory that starts with known facts and basic truisms about human behavior and builds from them.
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Each of these theses is falsifiable, and testable.
Clear Thinking?
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What really matters is not whether they've ever managed to get a single article published or not, but whether they've managed to actually develop a testable, falsifiable model that explains the data well.
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Mathematics is not falsifiable by empirical evidence it is falsiable by the possibility of mathematical disproof, which is not the same thing.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Russ Roberts, The Price of Everything:
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Sadly, in practice, abiogenesis is not yet allowed to be considered falsifiable or subject to the weight of evidence.
De Facto Intelligent Design in Biology
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While the phenomenon of global warming is an empty worry, fundamentally unverifiable and unfalsifiable in a strict scientific sense, it is one that has been empowered with a greater meaning by those who have the motive to do so.
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But the objection that his hypothesis is unfalsifiable, by contrast with the theory of natural selection, is powerful.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The model spews out implications that are demonstrably falsifiable given an appropriate dataset; i.e., if one can lay one's hand on a dataset, then the model's predictions can be verified as either true or false.
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While such semi-empirical entities are possible, they are ultimately neither verifiable nor falsifiable because of the continuing technical limitations involved.
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These do have the advantage of being falsifiable, since they are manifestly false.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Popper is not arguing that ‘existential statements’ - by which I assume he means observations or potential observations - must be falsifiable.
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It is a mistake to regard the falsification of bold, highly falsifiable conjectures as the occasions of significant advance in science.
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If a ‘model’ can explain data set X AND the exact opposite of data set X, it is not falsifiable; if it is not falsifiable, it is not testable.
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According to the eminent modern philosopher Karl Popper, the defining characteristic of science is that its assertions are falsifiable.
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The enterprise of science consists in the proposal of highly falsifiable hypotheses, followed by deliberate and tenacious attempts to falsify them.
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The supreme case of unfalsifiable pessimism is climate change.
Times, Sunday Times
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To be useful to scholars a proposition must be falsifiable - there must be something which could in theory refute the statement.
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As a means of solving the problem British philosopher Karl Popper proposed the principle of falsifiability - if a theory is falsifiable, then it is scientific; if it is not falsifiable, then it is not science.
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‘All crows are black’ is logically falsifiable, since it is inconsistent with (and would be falsified by) an observation report of a red crow.
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Collectively 'retrieved' versions of the past, like individual reconstructions 'recovered' on the psychoanalyst's couch, often seem self-interested and maddeningly unfalsifiable.
The Times Literary Supplement
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What he means of course is that science is the best method for 'the reliable determination of falsifiable hypotheses'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tautologies are statements true by definition and so are quite incapable of empirical refutation or prediction (insofar as a prediction in science must be empirically falsifiable).
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It has the added advantage of not being readily falsifiable in our lifetimes; only future humans, who will have the perspective of centuries, will know for certain whether the current warming trend is abnormal.
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All you will ever have is circumstantial evidence and an un-falsifiable hypothesis.
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As in repeatable measurements in falsifiable experiments?
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
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And the model was falsifiable, in the sense that its unambiguous prediction of existing lake phosphorus and algal concentrations could well have been contradicted by the measurements.
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To limit 'truth' to falsifiable factual phenomena is a rather serious diminution of human culture, experience and aspiration.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was so easily falsifiable it was almost painful.
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