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unfalsifiable

unfalsifiable

adj. denoting the quality of a proposition, hypothesis, or theory such that no empirical test can establish that it is false. For Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper (1902–1994), a theory or hypothesis that is unfalsifiable is to be judged nonscientific. See falsifiability; falsificationism; risky prediction.

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