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falsify,
v to forge; to give a false appearance to anything, as to falsify a record.


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Adding to this tension, the popular press was attracted to Munsterberg because he often made provocative comments in an authoritative manner and on a wide range of popular topics, such as the role of women in the work place, the falsifiability of mystics and psychics, and the fallibility of witnesses in court proceedings.
Attardo, Ritchie and others also argue over the falsifiability of humour theories, as Gibbs (2000: 349) accuses the theory of conceptual integration of having a post hoc quality and unfalsifiability--it is hard to conceive what the falsifiability of such kind of 'impressionistic', inexact theories should mean and in what way it could be operationalized.
A theory, on the other hand, has to be specified in ways permitting verification or falsifiability.
 
 
 
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