Definition of "falsification" []

• The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not (noun)
• Knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation (noun)
• Showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong (noun)

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• "˜falsification/corroboration™ disjunction offered by Popper is far too logically neat: non-corroboration is not necessarily falsification, and falsification of a high-level scientific theory is never brought about by an isolated observation or set of observations."
• "I should point out, Coyne, for all his bravdo about science and falsification, is affiliated with a discipline (evolutionary biology) that is notorious for its lack of falsifiability and lack of direct experimental evidences, and thus its lack of real science."
• "But in the end, exact solution, including calculations allowing exact falsification, is impossible, by principle, since people cannot exist when the only energy available is zero-point energy."