Sentence examples for attempt to falsify from inspiring English sources

The philosopher Karl Popper once said, "Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it".

As a publicly traded company, JPMorgan is required to maintain accurate books and records, and any attempt to falsify information can be the basis for a criminal prosecution.

By Alex Koppelman February 20 , 2013The philosopher Karl Popper once said, "Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it".

When Americans last paid attention to Ukraine, during the Orange Revolution protests nine years ago, Yanukovych also played the bad guy, for his attempt to falsify the results of a Presidential election with backing from Moscow.

Thus, even if scientists were at one point in time to have conceptions and hypotheses about nature that survived every attempt to falsify them, this fact alone would not ensure that at some later point in time these same conceptions and hypotheses would remain accurate or even pertinent.

Wason accepted falsificationism, according to which a scientific test of a hypothesis is a serious attempt to falsify it.

The Kremlin recently established a panel to combat what it termed attempts to falsify history in ways that demean the achievements of Russia.

The people arrested were charged with mail and wire fraud, and are accused of falsifying or attempting to falsify welding, soil boring and asphalt test documents, according to criminal complaints unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn.

Nikolai Svanidze, a Russian historian who serves on a Kremlin panel intended to combat "attempts to falsify history," said the world often failed to understand the trauma suffered by the Soviet Union in World War II, when 25 million Soviet citizens died.

Photo editors also stressed that outright attempts to falsify images are rare compared with photographers' tendencies to overcorrect their pictures, overcompensating for light or focus problems in an attempt to produce the clearest or best possible image.

Meanwhile, leaders have railed against Eastern European historians who paint Soviet forces as occupiers, and in May Mr. Medvedev created a commission to prevent such attempts to "falsify history".