0 present participle of falsify
1 to change something, such as a document, in order to deceive people:
The certificate had clearly been falsified.
People would not want to jeopardise their livelihood by falsifying their reports or by fiddling with the coupons, or so the logic went.
The former, after seeing the outcome, seek a reinterpretation of what constitutes an appropriate test; the latter seek new falsifying outcomes.
Sources and communications transmitting negative ("falsifying") information may be doubted, rejected, or simply ignored.
But to take this to the extreme by falsifying the truth to please oppressors was the obverse of decency.
The same logic applies if a falsifying outcome is rejected because the subjects were insufficiently sophisticated.
Consequently, all falsifying outcomes can be dismissed by arguing that it is the auxiliary hypotheses, not the theory, that must be rejected.
Obviously testing only parts of a complex theory increases the chances of ' falsifying' it.
Past knowledge is continually tested through practice, falsifying what does not work and sustaining what does.
