反はん証しょう可か能のう性せい

noun

falsifiability

A technical term in the philosophy of science, referring to the property of a statement or theory that it can be proven false by empirical evidence. Associated with Karl Popper's criterion of demarcation.

• 反はん証しょう可か能のう性せいは、科か学がくと疑ぎ似じ科か学がくを区く別べつする基き準じゅんの一ひとつとされる。

  Falsifiability is considered one of the criteria for distinguishing science from pseudoscience.

• その理り論ろんは反はん証しょう可か能のう性せいを欠かいているため、科か学がく的てきとは言いえない。

  That theory cannot be called scientific because it lacks falsifiability.