falsificationist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From falsification + -ist.
Adjective
[edit]falsificationist (not comparable)
- (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
[edit]falsificationist (plural falsificationists)
- An advocate of falsificationism.