NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Falsification

The act of disproving a proposition, hypothesis, or theory. (See, Validation, Mathematical proof, Falsifiability)
Forgery, the act of producing something that lacks authenticity with the intent to commit fraud or deception
Self-falsification, i.e. liar paradox

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Categories: Disambiguation The word validation has several related meanings: In general, validation is the process of checking if something satisfies a certain criterion. ... In mathematics, a proof is a demonstration that, assuming certain axioms, some statement is necessarily true. ... In science and the philosophy of science, falsifiability, contingency, and defeasibility are roughly equivalent terms referring to the property of empirical statements that they must admit of logical counterexamples. ... Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents (see false document), with the intention to deceive. ... In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox encompasses paradoxical statements such as: Analysing the statement I am lying now. ...

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Falsifiability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4518 words)
	Naïve falsification does not enable scientists to present a definitive falsification of a universal statements.
	Sophisticated Methodological Falsification, on the other hand, is a prescription of a way in which scientists ought to behave as a matter of choice.
	A theory that is not open to falsification requires faith that it is not, in fact, false.

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