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Definition of falsify in English: falsifyverbfalsified, falsifying, falsifies ˈfɔːlsɪfʌɪˈfɒlsɪfʌɪˈfɔlsəˌfaɪ [with object]1Alter (information, a document, or evidence) so as to mislead. 篡改；歪曲（信息，证据） a laboratory which was alleged to have falsified test results Example sentencesExamples - He has already been charged with falsifying documents which showed transfer credits totalling over $40m from a bank he owned in Belgrade to an Irish company.
- Its total contribution on the gun issue is not an argument about guns, but a personal - indeed a personal, vicious, and falsified - attack on Heston and the NRA as a group.
- Best also said he had falsified two other case reports at the direction of the 31-year-old Auner during his stint with the training officer.
- Without blogs and other Internet media, this rumor would have just festered - because of blogs, these accusations got quickly aired and quickly falsified.
- No interest is served when it's easy to duplicate or falsify an identity document.
- The fact that falsified, erroneous reports made it into the pages of the Times demonstrates a flawed editorial process and a severe lapse in judgment from management.
- A complaint cannot be filed or properly pursued if key evidence has been withheld or even falsified.
- He was said to have deliberately falsified a document to increase his salary and backdate his pension.
- While Furtado pleaded guilty to falsifying a declaration for a marriage certificate, Fulgencio denied the same charge and faced trial yesterday.
- A doctor yesterday branded as ‘preposterous’ accusations that he falsified an application for a job at a leading Yorkshire hospital.
- Threats to integrity may include a request to deceive a patient, to withhold information, or to falsify records, as well as verbal abuse from patients and coworkers.
- An even higher level that has to be considered in the attack planning and implementation is the effect on the adversary's decisions of blocking, degrading, falsifying, or inserting the sensor information.
- Are these legitimate defectors or are they deliberately out there falsifying testimony?
- Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential, but patient data should never be altered or falsified in an attempt to attain anonymity.
- Thousands of unwitting South African women may be married illegally to foreigners who have paid corrupt officials to falsify marriage certificates.
- These sorts of assertions are good because they are hard to falsify.
- However, in my view evidence concerning the motive or lack of motive in the complainant for falsifying her complaint is admissible not only in relation to her credit but also in relation to the facts-in-issue in the case.
- He was arrested July 19 at the McAllen airport and charged four days later with illegal entry into the US, falsifying information and falsifying a passport.
- There is now some speculation that the allegations were falsified by Phil Weaver.
- I have in my possession documents including receipts, log-sheets, etc. which have been altered and falsified so as to give the impression that everything is in order and in accordance with the quotas.
- It was called following allegations that in one ward alone, 3,000 out of 7,000 postal codes were stolen, altered or falsified during last year's local elections.
- One senior investigator was found by the three judges to have falsified statements attributed to Murphy.
- Apparently, the competition to get into the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley is so fierce that applicants falsified schooling, job information, and other items in order to gain admission.
- When I called Morris and asked for the adoption specialist, he told me we were turned down because we had falsified the application.
- He cites evidence that doctors or medics falsified death certificates to cover up homicides.
- Marx not only omitted facts which ran counter to his theories, but also was guilty of distorting, falsifying, and misquoting information which contradicted his contentions.
- On 5 January 1996 the police reportedly used his thumb prints to falsify a statement in which he apparently confirmed that his injuries resulted from a fall while he was in the Civil Hospital, soon after he was first examined.
- He is also charged with falsifying an accounting document for September 1997 at Matbro contrary to the Theft Act.
- The defendant is also alleged to have falsified an accounting document on a loan facility in August 1996.
- Tribunal lawyers introduced further invoices from a company based in the Czech Republic yesterday to support their theory that he regularly falsified records to conceal the proceeds of property deals in Ireland.
- The information we had about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was exaggerated or falsified.
- He falsified the medical records of Hazel Wood when she died of serious heart disease because three months earlier he attributed her chest pains to stomach problems.
- Lynn Geldof told reporters the detection of child trafficking was complicated by the fact that many traffickers are women who falsify documents so as to pose as the children's mothers.
- After finding an unqualified buyer, they'd falsify mortgage applications and employment histories just to get a bank to say yes to a loan.
- The students were selected on the basis of their character and were not compensated for their efforts so falsifying or intentionally providing inaccurate data should be considered unlikely.
- He was sentenced to 15 months in jail for falsifying his identity documents to get a passport to go to Pakistan.
- It was clear that he had covered his tracks by altering records and falsifying death certificates.
- The women had their passports taken from them and made to sign a blank piece of paper, later used to falsify work-related documents.
- The central bank said it would punish banks which helped businesses to falsify documents regarding their overseas remissions.
- Shipman had falsified his records to create bogus medical histories to explain away the sudden deaths of his victims.
Synonyms forge, fake, counterfeit, fabricate, invent, alter, change, doctor, tamper with, fudge, manipulate, massage, adulterate, pervert, corrupt, debase, misrepresent, misreport, distort, warp, embellish, embroider, colour, put a spin on rare vitiate 2Prove (a statement or theory) to be false. 证明（声明，理论）是假的（或错误的） the hypothesis is falsified by the evidence 证据表明那假设是错误的。 Example sentencesExamples - Therefore the Earth's eigenvibrations falsify the Inside-Out theory, but can be easily understood in terms of the Earth's spherical shape, volume and density.
- Few physicists say they are looking for ways to falsify superstring theory.
- Dr. Rummel claims that my assertions are falsified in my own data.
- When Saturn didn't move as predicted, either Newton's theory was falsified, or there was another massive object perturbing the orbit - this turned out to be the planet Uranus.
- The failure to find differences in those zones would falsify the hypothesis that mountain lions partitioned space to obtain exclusive use of prey.
- It is true, as Rennie states, that Karl Popper's work on falsifying scientific theory has been superseded by other philosophies of science, but we would say that the ‘falsification approach’ is still valid.
- I've already named lots of things that could be found that would falsify evolutionary theory completely.
- Some researchers today do not agree that dinosaurs gave rise to birds, and are working to falsify this theory, but so far the evidence for the theory has swamped their efforts.
- His explanation that X is not powerful evidence is interpreted as an attempt to falsify the theory.
- Ruse does not claim that Christian beliefs have been falsified by evolution.
- If pendulums do not behave in the way predicted by the theory, then the theory is falsified.
- Karl Popper long ago argued that empirical observations can never truly confirm a theory, they can only falsify or fail to falsify it.
- Our rejection of the alternative hypothesis of a habitat effect is based on failure to falsify the null hypothesis that winter survival among immigrants was unrelated to survival among parents.
- Given the apparent uniqueness of the north temperate zone populations of the Sedge Wren, it is important to try to falsify this hypothesis relating breeding-site fidelity and styles of song development.
- Paup does not reproduce the phenetic clusters, and therefore the null hypothesis is falsified.
- Among the ways in which I can falsify the assumptions on which it is based is to change my mind as the result of practical reasoning.
- Once again Dembski demonstrates that the Design Inference is one based on elimination and our ignorance by arguing that to falsify ID's hypothesis it has to show how it evolved step by step.
- For example, materialism and dualism are contradictory but both theories are coherent and consistent with experience, and there is no empirical event that could falsify either theory.
- Additional experiments are then performed in an attempt to falsify the theory.
- If history is our guide, we would expect future research to support some ideas and falsify others.
Synonyms disprove, show to be false, prove unsound, refute, rebut, deny, debunk, negate, invalidate, contradict, confound, be at odds with, demolish, discredit informal shoot full of holes, shoot down (in flames), blow sky-high, blow out of the water formal confute, gainsay rare controvert, negative - 2.1 Fail to fulfil (a hope, fear, or expectation)
使（希望、忧虑或期望） 落空；使失去正当性 changes falsify individual expectations 种种变故使个人的期望成了泡影。 Example sentencesExamples - Her claim in this action falsifies no legitimate assumption or expectation.
- My learned friend reminds me that I should conclude my response to your Honour Justice McHugh's observations about falsifying the expectations of parties, or that what happened falsified someone's expectation.
- This is because any ‘false trading’ would falsify expectations and therefore change agents evaluations of their assets.
Derivativesnoun fɒlsɪfʌɪəˈbɪlɪtifɔːlsɪfʌɪəˈbɪlɪti In any event, full marks to the old man for providing us with a theory that meets Karl Popper's test of falsifiability, which is a lot more than Freud or, as best I can make it out, Darwin ever did. Example sentencesExamples - Therefore, Popper argues for the hallmark of science being falsifiability, the willingness to state under which conditions one will consider one's bold hypothesis to have been falsified.
- Popper advanced his criterion of falsifiability along with a set of conventions or ‘rules of the game’ of science to ensure that the truth of theories can be tested by evidence.
- One of the core tenets of modern science is falsifiability.
- The problem here is that falsifiability applies at the level of specific scientific claims whereas both evolution and ID are collections of such claims.
adjective ˈfɒlsɪfʌɪəb(ə)lˈfɔːlsɪfʌɪəb(ə)lˌfɔlsəˈfaɪəb(ə)l As a means of solving the problem British philosopher Karl Popper proposed the principle of falsifiability - if a theory is falsifiable, then it is scientific; if it is not falsifiable, then it is not science. Example sentencesExamples - If a ‘model’ can explain data set X AND the exact opposite of data set X, it is not falsifiable; if it is not falsifiable, it is not testable.
- For science to be useful and valid it has to be able to make predictions in the form of a falsifiable hypothesis.
- They seem to think that one can make up any theory, no matter how ridiculous, and unless it is dramatically falsifiable, it's just as valid as a theory that starts with known facts and basic truisms about human behavior and builds from them.
- Because of this, anecdotes are not reproducible, and are thus untestable; since they cannot be tested, they are not falsifiable and are not part of the scientific process…
- According to the eminent modern philosopher Karl Popper, the defining characteristic of science is that its assertions are falsifiable.
- ‘All crows are black’ is logically falsifiable, since it is inconsistent with (and would be falsified by) an observation report of a red crow.
- There was one reader who emailed me something about the scientific method that I think is important, which is that if hypotheses have to be falsifiable, results have to be reproducible.
- Popper is not arguing that ‘existential statements’ - by which I assume he means observations or potential observations - must be falsifiable.
- A word of warning first: this post is speculative in nature as I have no proof, nor do I think that what I say is provable, verifiable or falsifiable.
- While such semi-empirical entities are possible, they are ultimately neither verifiable nor falsifiable because of the continuing technical limitations involved.
- Modern science demands falsifiable theories with physical evidence, therefore creationism is simply not a scientifically acceptable theory
- What really matters is not whether they've ever managed to get a single article published or not, but whether they've managed to actually develop a testable, falsifiable model that explains the data well.
- This level of detail doesn't automatically make her story ‘true,’ but it does make her story falsifiable, by which I mean possible to disprove.
- It is not falsifiable and makes no predictions about future scientific discoveries.
- And the model was falsifiable, in the sense that its unambiguous prediction of existing lake phosphorus and algal concentrations could well have been contradicted by the measurements.
- It is clear that psychoanalysis is not going to be falsifiable (in principle) in the way that the physical or biological sciences are - that is, by producing an experiment that can conclusively falsify it.
- Of course Darwin's theory is eminently falsifiable, in a million possible ways.
- It has the added advantage of not being readily falsifiable in our lifetimes; only future humans, who will have the perspective of centuries, will know for certain whether the current warming trend is abnormal.
- The model spews out implications that are demonstrably falsifiable given an appropriate dataset; i.e., if one can lay one's hand on a dataset, then the model's predictions can be verified as either true or false.
OriginLate Middle English (in sense 2): from French falsifier or medieval Latin falsificare, from Latin falsificus 'making false', from falsus 'false'. Definition of falsify in US English: falsifyverbˈfôlsəˌfīˈfɔlsəˌfaɪ [with object]1Alter (information or evidence) so as to mislead. 篡改；歪曲（信息，证据） Example sentencesExamples - He was arrested July 19 at the McAllen airport and charged four days later with illegal entry into the US, falsifying information and falsifying a passport.
- The women had their passports taken from them and made to sign a blank piece of paper, later used to falsify work-related documents.
- A doctor yesterday branded as ‘preposterous’ accusations that he falsified an application for a job at a leading Yorkshire hospital.
- He was sentenced to 15 months in jail for falsifying his identity documents to get a passport to go to Pakistan.
- Are these legitimate defectors or are they deliberately out there falsifying testimony?
- Its total contribution on the gun issue is not an argument about guns, but a personal - indeed a personal, vicious, and falsified - attack on Heston and the NRA as a group.
- He cites evidence that doctors or medics falsified death certificates to cover up homicides.
- The central bank said it would punish banks which helped businesses to falsify documents regarding their overseas remissions.
- He was said to have deliberately falsified a document to increase his salary and backdate his pension.
- Best also said he had falsified two other case reports at the direction of the 31-year-old Auner during his stint with the training officer.
- Thousands of unwitting South African women may be married illegally to foreigners who have paid corrupt officials to falsify marriage certificates.
- Lynn Geldof told reporters the detection of child trafficking was complicated by the fact that many traffickers are women who falsify documents so as to pose as the children's mothers.
- Shipman had falsified his records to create bogus medical histories to explain away the sudden deaths of his victims.
- The defendant is also alleged to have falsified an accounting document on a loan facility in August 1996.
- It was clear that he had covered his tracks by altering records and falsifying death certificates.
- I have in my possession documents including receipts, log-sheets, etc. which have been altered and falsified so as to give the impression that everything is in order and in accordance with the quotas.
- One senior investigator was found by the three judges to have falsified statements attributed to Murphy.
- The information we had about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was exaggerated or falsified.
- Apparently, the competition to get into the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley is so fierce that applicants falsified schooling, job information, and other items in order to gain admission.
- The students were selected on the basis of their character and were not compensated for their efforts so falsifying or intentionally providing inaccurate data should be considered unlikely.
- Without blogs and other Internet media, this rumor would have just festered - because of blogs, these accusations got quickly aired and quickly falsified.
- The fact that falsified, erroneous reports made it into the pages of the Times demonstrates a flawed editorial process and a severe lapse in judgment from management.
- He falsified the medical records of Hazel Wood when she died of serious heart disease because three months earlier he attributed her chest pains to stomach problems.
- An even higher level that has to be considered in the attack planning and implementation is the effect on the adversary's decisions of blocking, degrading, falsifying, or inserting the sensor information.
- While Furtado pleaded guilty to falsifying a declaration for a marriage certificate, Fulgencio denied the same charge and faced trial yesterday.
- He has already been charged with falsifying documents which showed transfer credits totalling over $40m from a bank he owned in Belgrade to an Irish company.
- After finding an unqualified buyer, they'd falsify mortgage applications and employment histories just to get a bank to say yes to a loan.
- It was called following allegations that in one ward alone, 3,000 out of 7,000 postal codes were stolen, altered or falsified during last year's local elections.
- There is now some speculation that the allegations were falsified by Phil Weaver.
- These sorts of assertions are good because they are hard to falsify.
- When I called Morris and asked for the adoption specialist, he told me we were turned down because we had falsified the application.
- On 5 January 1996 the police reportedly used his thumb prints to falsify a statement in which he apparently confirmed that his injuries resulted from a fall while he was in the Civil Hospital, soon after he was first examined.
- However, in my view evidence concerning the motive or lack of motive in the complainant for falsifying her complaint is admissible not only in relation to her credit but also in relation to the facts-in-issue in the case.
- Marx not only omitted facts which ran counter to his theories, but also was guilty of distorting, falsifying, and misquoting information which contradicted his contentions.
- A complaint cannot be filed or properly pursued if key evidence has been withheld or even falsified.
- Threats to integrity may include a request to deceive a patient, to withhold information, or to falsify records, as well as verbal abuse from patients and coworkers.
- Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential, but patient data should never be altered or falsified in an attempt to attain anonymity.
- He is also charged with falsifying an accounting document for September 1997 at Matbro contrary to the Theft Act.
- No interest is served when it's easy to duplicate or falsify an identity document.
- Tribunal lawyers introduced further invoices from a company based in the Czech Republic yesterday to support their theory that he regularly falsified records to conceal the proceeds of property deals in Ireland.
Synonyms forge, fake, counterfeit, fabricate, invent, alter, change, doctor, tamper with, fudge, manipulate, massage, adulterate, pervert, corrupt, debase, misrepresent, misreport, distort, warp, embellish, embroider, colour, put a spin on - 1.1 Forge or alter (a document) fraudulently.
伪造；篡改（文件） 伪造的文件。 Example sentencesExamples - The women had their passports taken from them and made to sign a blank piece of paper, later used to falsify work-related documents.
- On 5 January 1996 the police reportedly used his thumb prints to falsify a statement in which he apparently confirmed that his injuries resulted from a fall while he was in the Civil Hospital, soon after he was first examined.
- One senior investigator was found by the three judges to have falsified statements attributed to Murphy.
- It was clear that he had covered his tracks by altering records and falsifying death certificates.
- The central bank said it would punish banks which helped businesses to falsify documents regarding their overseas remissions.
- Shipman had falsified his records to create bogus medical histories to explain away the sudden deaths of his victims.
- Threats to integrity may include a request to deceive a patient, to withhold information, or to falsify records, as well as verbal abuse from patients and coworkers.
- He was sentenced to 15 months in jail for falsifying his identity documents to get a passport to go to Pakistan.
- He cites evidence that doctors or medics falsified death certificates to cover up homicides.
- He is also charged with falsifying an accounting document for September 1997 at Matbro contrary to the Theft Act.
- Lynn Geldof told reporters the detection of child trafficking was complicated by the fact that many traffickers are women who falsify documents so as to pose as the children's mothers.
- Tribunal lawyers introduced further invoices from a company based in the Czech Republic yesterday to support their theory that he regularly falsified records to conceal the proceeds of property deals in Ireland.
- No interest is served when it's easy to duplicate or falsify an identity document.
- The defendant is also alleged to have falsified an accounting document on a loan facility in August 1996.
- He has already been charged with falsifying documents which showed transfer credits totalling over $40m from a bank he owned in Belgrade to an Irish company.
- He was arrested July 19 at the McAllen airport and charged four days later with illegal entry into the US, falsifying information and falsifying a passport.
- Thousands of unwitting South African women may be married illegally to foreigners who have paid corrupt officials to falsify marriage certificates.
- He falsified the medical records of Hazel Wood when she died of serious heart disease because three months earlier he attributed her chest pains to stomach problems.
- After finding an unqualified buyer, they'd falsify mortgage applications and employment histories just to get a bank to say yes to a loan.
- He was said to have deliberately falsified a document to increase his salary and backdate his pension.
Synonyms forge, fake, counterfeit, fabricate, invent, alter, change, doctor, tamper with, fudge, manipulate, massage, adulterate, pervert, corrupt, debase, misrepresent, misreport, distort, warp, embellish, embroider, colour, put a spin on
2Prove (a statement or theory) to be false. 证明（声明，理论）是假的（或错误的） the hypothesis is falsified by the evidence 证据表明那假设是错误的。 Example sentencesExamples - I've already named lots of things that could be found that would falsify evolutionary theory completely.
- Karl Popper long ago argued that empirical observations can never truly confirm a theory, they can only falsify or fail to falsify it.
- Paup does not reproduce the phenetic clusters, and therefore the null hypothesis is falsified.
- Dr. Rummel claims that my assertions are falsified in my own data.
- Ruse does not claim that Christian beliefs have been falsified by evolution.
- Our rejection of the alternative hypothesis of a habitat effect is based on failure to falsify the null hypothesis that winter survival among immigrants was unrelated to survival among parents.
- For example, materialism and dualism are contradictory but both theories are coherent and consistent with experience, and there is no empirical event that could falsify either theory.
- Once again Dembski demonstrates that the Design Inference is one based on elimination and our ignorance by arguing that to falsify ID's hypothesis it has to show how it evolved step by step.
- Some researchers today do not agree that dinosaurs gave rise to birds, and are working to falsify this theory, but so far the evidence for the theory has swamped their efforts.
- The failure to find differences in those zones would falsify the hypothesis that mountain lions partitioned space to obtain exclusive use of prey.
- Among the ways in which I can falsify the assumptions on which it is based is to change my mind as the result of practical reasoning.
- When Saturn didn't move as predicted, either Newton's theory was falsified, or there was another massive object perturbing the orbit - this turned out to be the planet Uranus.
- Given the apparent uniqueness of the north temperate zone populations of the Sedge Wren, it is important to try to falsify this hypothesis relating breeding-site fidelity and styles of song development.
- It is true, as Rennie states, that Karl Popper's work on falsifying scientific theory has been superseded by other philosophies of science, but we would say that the ‘falsification approach’ is still valid.
- Few physicists say they are looking for ways to falsify superstring theory.
- If pendulums do not behave in the way predicted by the theory, then the theory is falsified.
- Additional experiments are then performed in an attempt to falsify the theory.
- His explanation that X is not powerful evidence is interpreted as an attempt to falsify the theory.
- Therefore the Earth's eigenvibrations falsify the Inside-Out theory, but can be easily understood in terms of the Earth's spherical shape, volume and density.
- If history is our guide, we would expect future research to support some ideas and falsify others.
Synonyms disprove, show to be false, prove unsound, refute, rebut, deny, debunk, negate, invalidate, contradict, confound, be at odds with, demolish, discredit - 2.1 Fail to fulfill (a hope, fear, or expectation); remove the justification for.
使（希望、忧虑或期望） 落空；使失去正当性 changes falsify individual expectations 种种变故使个人的期望成了泡影。 Example sentencesExamples - This is because any ‘false trading’ would falsify expectations and therefore change agents evaluations of their assets.
- My learned friend reminds me that I should conclude my response to your Honour Justice McHugh's observations about falsifying the expectations of parties, or that what happened falsified someone's expectation.
- Her claim in this action falsifies no legitimate assumption or expectation.
OriginLate Middle English (in falsify (sense 2)): from French falsifier or medieval Latin falsificare, from Latin falsificus ‘making false’, from falsus ‘false’. |