Falsifiable

Credit rating agencies have to address a very simple falsifiable question, is this company going to go bankrupt?

Acceptance is dependent upon the falsifiable hypothesis surviving tests.

Adolf Grünbaum argues that psychoanalytic based theories are falsifiable, but that the causal claims of psychoanalysis are unsupported by the available clinical evidence.

And an unfalsifiable—thus unscientific, perhaps metaphysical—concept in one era can later, through evolving knowledge or technology, become falsifiable, thus scientific.

A statement is called falsifiable if it is possible to conceive of an observation or an argument which negates the statement in question.

As the stone presented a hieroglyphic and a demotic version of the same text in parallel with a Greek translation, plenty of material for falsifiable studies in translation was suddenly available.

At a conference in 2015, Penrose said that "inflation isn't falsifiable, it's falsified.

Context, p. 22 and Whether ID Is Science, p. 77. The designer is not falsifiable, since its existence is typically asserted without sufficient conditions to allow a falsifying observation.

Economics Karl Popper argued that Marxism shifted from falsifiable to unfalsifiable.

Even so, the statement all swans are white is testable by being falsifiable.

Historicism Theories of history or politics that allegedly predict future events have a logical form that renders them neither falsifiable nor verifiable.

In the second sense it is factually true and falsifiable.

It also inspired him to take falsifiability as his criterion of demarcation between what is, and is not, genuinely scientific: a theory should be considered scientific if, and only if, it is falsifiable.

It is useful to know if a statement or theory is falsifiable, if for no other reason than that it provides us with an understanding of the ways in which one might assess the theory.

Models, in both science and mathematics, need to be internally consistent and also ought to be falsifiable (capable of disproof).

One might at the least be saved from attempting to falsify a non-falsifiable theory, or come to see an unfalsifiable theory as unsupportable.

On the other hand, he strictly opposed the view that non-falsifiable statements are meaningless or otherwise inherently bad, and noted that falsificationism does not imply it.

Popper held that it is the least likely, or most easily falsifiable, or simplest theory (attributes which he identified as all the same thing) that explains known facts that one should rationally prefer.

The idea here is that a simple theory applies to more cases than a more complex one, and is thus more easily falsifiable.

The strength of a scientific theory is related to the diversity of phenomena it can explain, which is measured by its ability to make falsifiable predictions with respect to those phenomena.