Meaning & use
Falsify
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To alter or present information dishonestly so as to deceive; to prove something false.
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The accountant was accused of falsifying the company's financial records.
The new evidence helped falsify the original theory.
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In science, 'falsify' has a technical meaning: to disprove a hypothesis through testing, central to Karl Popper's philosophy of science.
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2. verb
To demonstrate that a scientific hypothesis or theory is false through observation or experiment.
A single contradictory result can falsify an otherwise well-supported theory.
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