unfalsifiable

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ falsifiable.

Pronunciation

Adjective

unfalsifiable (not comparable)

  1. (of a statement or argument) Not able to be proven false, but not necessarily true.
    Antonym: falsifiable
    • 2019, Kevin McCain, Kostas Kampourakis, editors, What is Scientific Knowledge?, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Popper introduced the so-called ‘demarcation problem’ of identifying what distinguishes pseudoscience from science. Popper's suggestion, as I explain below, is that, unlike real science, pseudoscience is unfalsifiable.
    • 2020, Maj Dr. Ebenezer Kwakye Agyemang (Rtd), DECODING 2019 NOVEL CORONAVIRUS: Outbreak: Conspiracies: Impact, page 153:
      Unfalsifiability: The main problem with any particular conspiracy theory is not that it's wrong, but that it's inarguable; not that it's false, but that it is unfalsifiable.

Noun

unfalsifiable (plural unfalsifiables)

  1. A statement or argument that cannot be proven false, but is not necessarily true.

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