falsification

[ UK /fˌɒlsɪfɪkˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌfæɫsəfəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of determining that something is false
  2. any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
  3. the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
  4. a willful perversion of facts
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How To Use falsification In A Sentence

  • I was presumably asking "falsificationism" to "justify its own success," a goal that is, in the words of his essay, "utterly pointless. The Karl Popper Problem
  • Arrests were also reported of members of a major network of financial corruption involving the falsification of official documents.
  • Puzzles that resist solution are seen as anomalies rather than as falsifications of a paradigm.
  • He would need to show a willful mendacity, an intention to deceive by deliberate falsification.
  • A government that is able to defend its policies before the people only through falsification and deception is a regime of extreme crisis.
  • He came to realize that traditional accounts of science, whether inductivist or falsificationist, do not bear comparison with historical evidence.
  • Before that point, the two dominant theories of rationality were confirmationism (scientists should accept theories that are probably true, given the evidence) and falsificationism (scientists should reject theories that make false predictions about observables and replace them with theories that conform to all available evidence). Historicist Theories of Rationality
  • Ms. Kanimozhi as well as Sharad Kumar, managing director of Kalaignar TV; Rajiv Agarwal and Asif Balwa, directors at DB Group companies; and Karim Morani, head of Cineyug Films Pvt. Ltd., are facing charges such as criminal breach of trust, corruption, criminal conspiracy, falsification of documents, cheating and abetment to crime. Court to Hear Kanimozhi's Bail Plea on Friday
  • Generalizations with exceptions illustrate some subtle nuances in the relationship between Popperian falsificationism and the learning-theoretic idea of reliable convergence to the truth. Formal Learning Theory
  • Financial fraud is a conscious companies reporting accounting misstatements, false falsification of accounting surplus of conduct.
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