Definitions for falsify
ˈfɔl sə faɪfal·si·fy

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.3 / 3 votes

1. falsify, distort, garble, warpverb

   make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

2. fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresentverb

   tamper, with the purpose of deception

   "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

3. falsifyverb

   prove false

   "Falsify a claim"

4. falsifyverb

   falsify knowingly

   "She falsified the records"

5. interpolate, alter, falsifyverb

   insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. falsifyverb

   To alter so as to be false; to make incorrect.

2. falsifyverb

   To misrepresent.

3. falsifyverb

   To prove to be false.

4. Etymology: From falsifier, from falsificare, present active infinitive of falsifico, from falsificus, from falsus, corresponding to.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Falsifyverb

   Etymology: falsifier, French.

   1. To counterfeit; to forge; to produce something for that which in reality it is not.

   We cannot excuse that church, which either through corrupt translations of Scripture, delivereth, instead of divine speeches, any thing repugnant unto that which God speaketh; or, through falsified additions, proposeth that to the people of God as Scripture which is in truth no Scripture. Richard Hooker, b. v. s. 19.

   The Irish bards use to forge and falsify every thing as they list, to please or displease any man. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

   2. To confute; to prove false.

   Our Saviour’s prophecy stands good in the destruction of the temple, and the dissolution of the Jewish œconomy, when Jews and Pagans united all their endeavours, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction. Addison.

   3. To violate; to break by falsehood.

   It shall be thy work, thy shameful work, which is in thy power to shun, to make him live to see thy faith falsified, and his bed defiled. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   He suddenly falsified his faith, and villainously slew Selymes the king, as he was bathing himself, mistrusting nothing less than the falsehood of the pyrate. Richard Knolles, History of the Turks.

   This superadds treachery to all the other pestilent ingredients of the crime; ’tis the falsifying the most important trust. Decay of Piety.

   4. To pierce; to run through.

   His crest is rash’d away, his ample shield
   Is falsify’d, and round with jav’lins fill’d. John Dryden, Æn.

   Of this word Mr. Dryden writes thus. My friends quarrelled at the word falsified, as an innovation in our language. The fact is confessed; for I remember not to have read it in any English author; though perhaps it may be found in Edmund Spenser’s Fairy Queen. But suppose it be not there: why am I forbidden to borrow from the Italian, a polished language, the word which is wanting in my native tongue? Quintus Horatius Flaccus has given us a rule for coining words, si græco fonte cadant, especially when other words are joined with them which explain the sense. I use the word falsify, in this place, to mean that the shield of Turnus was not of proof against the spears and javelins of the Trojans, which had pierced it through and through in many places. The words which accompany this new one, makes my meaning plain: Ma si l’Usbergo d’Ambi era perfetto, Che mai poter falsarlo in nessum canto. Ariosto, cant. xxvi. Falsar cannot otherwise be turned than by falsified; for his shield was falsed, is not English. I might indeed have contented myself with saying his shield was pierced, and bored, and stuck with javelins. Dryden. Dryden, with all this effort, was not able to naturalise the new signification, which I have never seen copied, except once by some obscure nameless writer, and which indeed deserves not to be recieved.".

2. To Falsifyverb

   To tell lies; to violate truth.

   This point have we gained, that it is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. Robert South, Sermons.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. falsify

   Falsifiability is a deductive standard of evaluation of scientific theories and hypotheses that was introduced by the philosopher of science Karl Popper in his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934). He proposed it as the cornerstone solution to both the problem of induction and the problem of demarcation. A theory or hypothesis is falsifiable (or refutable) if it can be logically contradicted by an empirical test using existing technologies. Popper insisted that, as a logical criterion, falsifiability is distinct from the related concept "capacity to be proven wrong" discussed in Lakatos' falsificationism. Even being a logical criterion, its purpose is to make the theory predictive and testable, and thus useful in practice. Popper opposed falsifiability to the intuitively similar concept of verifiability that was then current in logical positivism. His argument goes that the only way to verify a claim such as "All swans are white" would be if one could theoretically observe all swans, which is not possible. Instead, falsifiability searches for the anomalous instance, such that observing a single black swan is theoretically reasonable and sufficient to logically falsify the claim. On the other hand, the Duhem–Quine thesis says that definitive experimental falsifications are impossible and that no scientific hypothesis is by itself capable of making predictions, because an empirical test of the hypothesis requires one or more background assumptions.According to Popper there is a clean asymmetry on the logical side and falsifiability does not have the Duhem problem because it is a logical criterion. Experimental research has the Duhem problem and other problems, such as induction, but, according to Popper, statistical tests, which are only possible when a theory is falsifiable, can still be useful within a critical discussion. Philosophers such as Deborah Mayo consider that Popper "comes up short" in his description of the scientific role of statistical and data models.As a key notion in the separation of science from non-science and pseudo-science, falsifiability has featured prominently in many scientific controversies and applications, even being used as legal precedent.

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1. falsify

   To falsify means to alter or manipulate information, data, or evidence in a deceptive manner or to falsely claim something as true which is actually not. It typically implies dishonesty or fraudulent activity in presenting false details as genuine or authentic.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Falsifyadjective

   to make false; to represent falsely

2. Falsifyadjective

   to counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin

3. Falsifyadjective

   to prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false

4. Falsifyadjective

   to violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word

5. Falsifyadjective

   to baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow

6. Falsifyadjective

   to avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment

7. Falsifyadjective

   to show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong

8. Falsifyadjective

   to make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document

9. Falsifyverb

   to tell lies; to violate the truth

10. Etymology: [L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See False, a.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Falsify

   fawls′i-fī, v.t. to forge or counterfeit: to prove untrustworthy: to break by falsehood:—pr.p. fals′ifying; pa.p. fals′ified.—adj. Fals′ifīable, capable of being falsified.—ns. Falsificā′tion, the act of making false: the giving to a thing the appearance of something which it is not; Fals′ifier, one who falsifies. [Fr.,—Low L. falsificăre—L. falsus, false, facĕre, to make.]

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   The numerical value of falsify in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

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   The numerical value of falsify in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of falsify in a Sentence

1. Michael Uhlenkamp:

   As with anything that potentially requires a certification, there is the possibility for an individual to falsify documentation.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Falsify
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=falsify
4. ^ Wikipedia
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5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/falsify
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=falsify