Falsifiability

:This page discusses how a theory or assertion is "falsifiable" ("disprovable" opp: "verifiable"), rather than the non-philosophical use of "falsification", meaning "counterfeiting." The idea comes from the work of the philosophers Sir Karl Popper and Ernest Gellner.

References

• Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (New York: Basic Books, 1959).
• Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).
• Paul Feyerabend, Against Method (London: Humanities Press, 1975).