unfalsifiable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.40 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not able to be proven false, but not necessarily true.
Example Sentences
- "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"."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English falsify Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English falsifiable English unfalsifiable From un- + falsifiable.