Sentence examples for falsified it from inspiring English sources

For this reason Popper restricted himself to the contention that a theory which is falsified is false and is known to be such, and that a theory which replaces a falsified theory (because it has a higher empirical content than the latter, and explains what has falsified it) is a 'better theory' than its predecessor.

Otto Frank confessed that his daughter's diary made him feel he "did not know" her, but that did not stop him from altering the diary before publication and approving a play that falsified it further.

While this does not, as in Green Zone, mean that intelligence was deliberately falsified, it does raise the question of whether officials at perhaps more than one level may have been so determined to invade Iraq that they "sexed up" a piece of evidence they knew to be dubious – behaviour that might be considered little better than making it up altogether.

Galileo's intuition may have been correct, but it was still clearly answerable to direct observational tests which might in principle have falsified it: will a body indeed still fall at the same speed when it is tied to another?

Since the address in the "from" or "reply to" fields of a spam message are usually falsified, it takes some doing to figure out where the message really came from and to send a complaint to the offending sender's service provider in hopes of getting their account cancelled.

The utilisation of either method of computing verisimilitude shows, Popper held, that even if a theory t2 with a higher content than a rival theory t1 is subsequently falsified, it can still legitimately be regarded as a better theory than t1, and 'better' is here now understood to mean t2 is closer to the truth than t1.

However, this poses a difficulty regarding the consistency of Popper's theory: if a theory X is to be genuinely testable (and so scientific) it must be possible to determine whether or not the basic propositions which would, if true, falsify it, are actually true or false (i.e., whether its potential falsifiers are actual falsifiers).

A statement can be falsifiable in this sense although it is not in practice possible to falsify it.

Such a hypothesis is falsifiable because an evidence sequence that verifies an alternative hypothesis of rank 0 falsifies it.

How do you offer the personal without falsifying it?

Nonetheless, I think (and hope) that history will falsify it.