falsification

the empirical disproofor refutation of a scientific hypothesis or proposed law. In this general sense, the falsification or the empirical confirmation or verification of propositions of all types is a routine feature of much sociology.
(more strictly) an alternative procedure to VERIFICATION. See FALSIFICATIONISM. see also VERIFICATION PRINCIPLE.

Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2000

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Agitation
Anticommunism
Argentina
Barkhatnaia Kniga
Chronicle
evidence
falsificationism
Frantisek Martin Pelcl
Gangsterism
German Democratic Republic
Germany
Goebbels, Joseph Paul
Gratsianskii, Nikolai
Gratsianskii, Nikolai Pavlovich
historiography
hypothetico-deductive explanation and method
induction and inductive logic
Joseph Paul Goebbels
Karl Marx

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