falsificationist
nounEtymology From falsification + -ist.
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An advocate of falsificationism.
falsificationist
adjEtymology From falsification + -ist.
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Sciences Of a philosophy, using experiment and observation to attempt to show that a scientific theory is false, rather than attempting to verify it.
- A strict falsificationist position is thus inappropriate in research on meaningful data.2008, Andrew Chesterman, edited by Gyde Hansen, Andrew Chesterman, Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast, and Benjamins Translation Library, Efforts and Models in Interpreting and Translation Research: A tribute to Daniel Gile, page 57: