unfalsifiableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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形容詞

unfalsifiable (not comparable)

1. (of a statement または argument) Not able to be proven false, but not necessarily true.

   Antonym: falsifiable

   • 2019, Kevin McCain; Kostas Kampourakis, editors, What is Scientific Knowledge?‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN:

     Popper introduced the so-called ‘demarcation problem’ of identifying what distinguishes pseudoscience from science. Popper's suggestion, as I explain below, is that, unlike real science, pseudoscience is unfalsifiable.

   • 2020, Maj Dr. Ebenezer Kwakye Agyemang (Rtd), DECODING 2019 NOVEL CORONAVIRUS: Outbreak: Conspiracies: Impact, page 153:

     Unfalsifiability: The main problem with any particular conspiracy theory is not that it's wrong, but that it's inarguable; not that it's false, but that it is unfalsifiable.

名詞

unfalsifiable (複数形 unfalsifiables)

1. A statement or argument that cannot be proven false, but is not necessarily true.

参考

• logical fallacy