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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesfalsificabilidade
Pronunciation / Transliteration: falsificabilidade
"A falsificabilidade é um conceito central para validar teorias científicas."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
The capacity for a theory, hypothesis, or proposition to be proven wrong or false through empirical observation or experimentation.
"A core tenet of the scientific method is that every valid hypothesis must possess falsifiability." - 2
The logical possibility that an assertion can be shown to be false by an observation or physical test.
"Without falsifiability, a psychological theory remains merely speculative rather than testable."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the adjective 'falsifiable', coined in the 20th century from the Latin root 'falsus' (false) combined with 'facere' (to make), and the suffix '-ility'. It was popularized by philosopher of science Karl Popper in the 1930s as a central criterion in the scientific method to demarcate science from pseudoscience.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Falsifiability" is said worldwide
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falsifiabilité
Transliteration: falsifiabilite
"La falsifiabilité est un critère essentiel pour toute théorie scientifique."
Falsifizierbarkeit
Transliteration: Falsifizierbarkeit
"Die Falsifizierbarkeit unterscheidet Wissenschaft von Pseudowissenschaft."
falsificabilità
Transliteration: falsificabilita
"La falsificabilità è fondamentale nel metodo di Karl Popper."
falsabilidad
Transliteration: falsabilidad
"Karl Popper introdujo el concepto de falsabilidad en la filosofía de la ciencia."
falsificabilidade
Transliteration: falsificabilidade
"A falsificabilidade é um conceito central para validar teorias científicas."
गलत साबित किए जाने की योग्यता
Transliteration: galat sabit kiye jaane ki yogyata
Script: हिंदी देवनागरी
"वैज्ञानिक सिद्धांतों में गलत साबित किए जाने की योग्यता होना आवश्यक है।"
可证伪性
Transliteration: kě zhèng wéi xìng
Script: 中文汉字
"可证伪性是 Karl Popper 提出的科学哲学核心概念。"
반증가능성
Transliteration: banjeung-ganeungseong
Script: 한국어 한글
"과학적 이론은 반드시 반증가능성을 지녀야 합니다."
反証可能性
Transliteration: hanshō kanōsei
Script: 日本語
"反証可能性はカール・ポパーによって提唱された。"
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