falsify
verb
/ˈfɒlsɪfaɪ/
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/ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪ/
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- To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.
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väärentää,
teeskennellä,
tekeytyä
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- To counterfeit; to forge.
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väärentää
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- (science, otherwise, archaic) To prove to be false.
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osoittaa vääräksi
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- (accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
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paljastaa
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- (obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
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pettää
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- (obsolete) To baffle or escape.
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väistää
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falsifiability
noun
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- The quality of being falsifiable. [c. 1910]
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falsifioitavuus
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falsifiable
adjective
/ˈfɒl.sɪ.ˌfaɪ.ə.bəl/
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- (epistemology) The demarcation criterion between scientific and non-scientific statements proposed by Karl Popper. In order to be ranked as scientific, statements or systems of statements must be contradicted by an intersubjective singular existential statement, also called a basic statement, and not be contradicted by another, that is, they must also be logically possible.
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falsifioitava,
falsifioituva
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