falsifiable

Adjective Satellite

• capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation

Adj

• Logically capable of being proven false.
• Capable of being faked or forged.
• 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.

Examples

• A digital signature algorithm must be not falsifiable.
• The sentence "It will rain tomorrow" is falsifiable, while the sentence "It is what it is" is not.

Synonyms

confirmable, verifiable

Related Words

falsificationism, falsify