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/vˈɛrəfˌaɪəbəl/ Listen

Verifiable

adjective

Capable of being verified.

Capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation. Synonyms: confirmable, falsifiable.

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"Verifiable" Quotes from Famous Books

... above are verifiable history; they can be proved to have happened. Many other classic-hack stories from MIT and elsewhere, though retold as history, have the characteristics of what Jan Brunvand has called 'urban folklore' (see {FOAF}). Perhaps the best known of these is the legend of the infamous trolley-car hack, ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... motions which take place in nature." Widening this a little, we may say that the aim of science is to describe natural phenomena and occurrences as exactly as possible, as simply as possible, as completely as possible, as consistently as possible, and always in terms which are communicable and verifiable. This is a very different role from that of solving the riddles of the universe, and it is well expressed in what Newton said in regard to the law of gravitation: "So far I have accounted for the phenomena presented to us by the heavens and ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... the Thames, his action, like that of all the little kings of the barbaric age in Britain, can have been no more than a march with a few thousands, a battle, and a retreat. In a word, the true and verifiable story of Cynegil's baptism is one of the many valuable instances which help to prove the unreliability of that part of the early Chronicle which does not deal with ...

— The Historic Thames • Hilaire Belloc

... better attested. It may be said that they are only the usual warnings of conscience. Be it so. Then what is conscience? The factors in the problem are not materially changed, for the phenomena of conscience are as remarkable, constant, and verifiable as light and heat. Most men who have recorded their experiences, and who have observed with care the workings of their own faculties, have been conscious of being attended by some invisible presence warning ...

— The Ascent of the Soul • Amory H. Bradford

... of telepathy puts a ghost of the dead in a great quandary. If he communicates no verifiable information, he may be explained as a mere empty illusion. If he does yield fresh information, and if that is known to any living mind, he and his intelligence may have been wired on from that mind. His only chance is ...

— The Book of Dreams and Ghosts • Andrew Lang

Words linked to "Verifiable" : confirmable, empirical, objective, empiric, verify, nonsubjective