falsificationist

falsificationist
Describing a philosophy that uses experiment and observation to attempt to show that a scientific theory is false, rather than attempting to verify it.

A strict falsificationist position is thus inappropriate in research on meaningful data.

2. noun
An advocate of falsificationism.

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