falsificationist

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English

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Etymology

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From falsification +‎ -ist.

Adjective

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falsificationist (not comparable)

  1. (sciences) Of a philosophy, using experiment and observation to attempt to show that a scientific theory is false, rather than attempting to verify it.
    • 2008, Andrew Chesterman, edited by Gyde Hansen, Andrew Chesterman, Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast, and Benjamins Translation Library, Efforts and Models in Interpreting and Translation Research: A tribute to Daniel Gile, page 57:
      A strict falsificationist position is thus inappropriate in research on meaningful data.

Noun

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falsificationist (plural falsificationists)

  1. An advocate of falsificationism.