adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An advocate of falsificationism.

Adjective

1. 1
   Of a philosophy, using experiment and observation to attempt to show that a scientific theory is false, rather than attempting to verify it. not-comparable

   "A strict falsificationist position is thus inappropriate in research on meaningful data."

Example

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"A strict falsificationist position is thus inappropriate in research on meaningful data."

Etymology

From falsification + -ist.

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