Sentence examples for it is falsified from inspiring English sources

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Consequently the severity of the test to which a theory can be subjected, and by means of which it is falsified or corroborated, is all-important.

For example, in the case of the two alternative generalizations with exceptions, the principle of maintaining a universal generalization until it is falsified leads to an unreliable method (cf. [Kelly 1996, Ch. 9.4]).

Although the theory of a mechanical input modulating the flow of ions through an ion pore has been a useful tool, it is falsified by experimental data in the literature and can be definitively falsified by a proposed experiment.

One major problem in this equation of hypothesis with falsifiable conjecture is that it is usually not the case that a hypothesis is abandoned or substituted when it is "falsified".

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So LOTH is not committed to there being a single representational system realized in the brain, nor is it committed to the claim that all mental representations are complex or language-like, nor would it be falsified if it turns out that most aspects of mental life other than the ones involving propositional attitudes don't require a LOT.

(Almost all of the responses to his tweet were some variation of "THAT NEVER HAPPENED," but Wedlock posted about the incident on Facebook, as did one of Airlie's friends. That doesn't mean it did happen, but does mean that we'd applaud their commitment to social media bullshit, if it were falsified).

Whether it's falsifying documents or fudging an interest rate quote, many of the actors of these schemes knowingly cheated in some form or another.

If two more green emeralds are observed, the rule's conjecture is falsified and it must eventually change its mind, say to conjecture that all emeralds are green (supposing that green emeralds continue to be found).

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.

Hypothesis 4 is falsified, hypothesis H5 is confirmed.

If not, then common descent is falsified.

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