refutationism
A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable…A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
Origin
From refutation + -ism.From refutation + -ism.
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedfalsificationism
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable