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It doesn't mean "to disprove" as much as it means "to posit a condition under which the statement would be disproved". In other words, a falsifiable claim is o
by Gormo 14y ago
It doesn't mean "to disprove" as much as it means "to posit a condition under which the statement would be disproved". In other words, a falsifiable claim is one that can be empirically tested, not one that's necessarily already been proven false.
- wcarss 14y agoTo be disprovable is to be "falsifiable". To disprove, then, is to "falsify".