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"falsify" means "to forge or alter as to deceive," not disprove.
by tmurray 14y ago
"falsify" means "to forge or alter as to deceive," not disprove.
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- _pius 14y agoThough I didn't find this confusing in context, it actually means both. (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability)
- opminion 14y agoIn philosophy of science, when discussing what makes a good hypothesis, it is used as disprove. As in: the existence of the Spaghetti Monster cannot be falsified, and thus to believe in it is an act of faith. http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/popper_falsification.html http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/popper_falsification.htm...
- Gormo 14y agoIt 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".
- Bill_Dimm 14y agoRegardless, "fabricates" would be a lot clearer.
- socialsplat 14y agoI agree. I had sort of a brain fart when I was coming up with a title, and couldn't think of anything that hit the mark short of "BranchOut puts quote from Wall Street Journal that Never Was." Too late to change the URL now, but the title itself is changed.