Meanings
- not comparableNot able to be proven false, but not necessarily true.
Conspiracy theories are designed to be unfalsifiable: every criticism can be dismissed as "whitewashing by the conspirers", and every concern can be summarized as "part of the greater conspiracy".
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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.
2019, Kevin McCain, Kostas Kampourakis, editors, What is Scientific Knowledge?, Routledge, →ISBNUnfalsifiability: 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.
2020, Maj Dr. Ebenezer Kwakye Agyemang (Rtd), DECODING 2019 NOVEL CORONAVIRUS: Outbreak: Conspiracies: Impact, page 153Synonyms: undisprovable · Antonyms: falsifiable, disprovable
plural unfalsifiables
- A statement or argument that cannot be proven false, but is not necessarily true.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot able to be proven false, but not necessarily true.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishfalsify
- Englishfalsifiable
- Englishunfalsifiable
From un- + falsifiable.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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