Sentence examples for possibility of falsification from inspiring English sources

The mark of a scientific theory, he held, was that it be open to the possibility of falsification by evidence; the mark of a good society was that it be open to change of government without bloodshed.

Imagine a service that could give mathematical assurance about what is happening with each individual piece of personal data, without possibility of falsification or omission.

But statements which are insulated from the possibility of falsification are object-language 'mis-expressions' of what are, at bottom, grammatical rules.

Because of the inherent possibility of falsification, all explanations in social science (explicitly or implied) use probability as a criterion for reliability.

For Popper, the possibility of falsification demarcated science from pseudo-science (see Conjectures and Refutations).

He also faces further possible charges of falsification of the consolidated accounts of Fininvest.

"Courting Disaster" downplays the C.I.A.'s brutality under the Bush Administration to the point of falsification.

However, modern science is built on Karl Popper's criterion of falsification.

Sebald has his own scruples about the "morally questionable process of falsification.

That is how the past turns into living memory, even at the price of falsification.

A central difficulty of falsification is behavioural rather than theoretical – falsificationism is an ideal.