falsifiability
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詞源
[编辑]源自 falsifiable + -ity。
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[编辑]名詞
[编辑]falsifiability (通常不可數，複數 falsifiabilities)
- 可證偽性（約1910年起）
- 近義詞：refutability
- 反義詞：irrefutability, unfalsifiability
- These ideas have many virtues, but falsifiability is not one of them.
- 這些想法有許多優點，但可證偽性並不是其中之一。
- 1959, Karl Raimund Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery:
- The degree of their testability is of significance for the selection of theories. In this chapter, I shall compare the various degrees of testability or falsifiability of theories through comparing the classes of their potential falsifiers.
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- 1985, Alexander Rosenberg, The Structure of Biological Science:
- A proposition is scientific if and only if it is falsifiable. This is the criterion or principle of falsifiability. Falsifiability must be distinguished from falsity, of course.
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- 1989, James B. Rule, Theories of Civil Violence:
- The need for some such criterion is one reason why falsifiability of theories holds special importance in this book. If theories yield statements in the empirical world that stand to be confirmed or undermined by actual empirical reports, we have the basis for one overarching standard.
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