Falsifiable vs Falsify - What's the difference?
falsifiable | falsify | Related terms |
Logically capable of being proven false.
Capable of being falsified or forged.
To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
* Spenser
To misrepresent.
To prove to be false.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
To counterfeit; to forge.
(finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
(obsolete) To baffle or escape.
* Samuel Butler
(obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
Falsify is a related term of falsifiable.
Falsifiable is a derived term of falsify.
As a adjective falsifiable
is logically capable of being proven false.As a verb falsify is
to alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.falsifiable
English
(Falsifiability)Adjective
(en adjective)- ''The sentence "It will rain tomorrow" is falsifiable , while the sentence "It is what it is" is not.
- A digital signature algorithm must be not falsifiable .
falsify
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Verb
(en-verb)- to falsify a record or document
- The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
- By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.
- Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.
- to falsify coin
- (Story)
- (Daniell)
- For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe
- to falsify one's faith or word
- (Sir Philip Sidney)