可證偽性(英語:falsifiability)或可反駁性[1](refutability),或譯可反證性、可否证性、可检验性[2](testability)等,是評估科學理論和假說的演繹標準,由科學哲學家卡爾·波普爾在其1934年出版的論著《科學發現的邏輯》(The Logic of Scientific Discovery)中提出。波普爾指出,如果一個理論或假說可以在經實證檢驗後,被發現邏輯上與實證檢驗結果存在相牴觸之處,它即是可被證偽的(或可被反駁的)(或理論的結論有邏輯上的反例存在)。[3]
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