falsifiableadj.
/ˈfɔːlsᵻfʌɪəbl/, /ˈfɒlsᵻfʌɪəbl/, U.S. /ˈfɔlsəˌfaɪəb(ə)l/, /ˈfɑlsəˌfaɪəb(ə)l/ That may be falsified.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective] > capable of being forged
falsifiable1611
counterfeitable1676
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Falsifiable, which may be falsified, adulterated, forged, sophisticated.
1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. II. 412 The senses are the sovereign Lords of his knowledge, but they are uncertain and falsifiable in all circumstances.
1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 252 The Vedántins believe the world to be falsifiable.
1959 Cambr. Rev. 30 May 568/2 Suppose now that a statement was meaningful if and only if it was falsifiable.
1964 W. P. Alston Philos. Lang. iv. 70 We should also note the specially wide sense in which the positivists use ‘verifiability’. In this use, it is really equivalent to the disjunction ‘verifiable or falsifiable’, that is, ‘capable of being established as true or false’.
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