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- noun The quality of being
untestable .
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Examples
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This kind of untestability is precisely the conventional kind you often end up with when you pursue a wrong idea.
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Many sentences about the insane "untestability" statements follow.
The Reference Frame 2010
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I would say the same as for multiverse cosmologies, you have yet to derive and test that prediction of untestability from the theory.
If We Live in a Multiverse, How Many Are There? | Universe Today 2009
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Not much point in trying to convince you of the untestability of string theory … no one seems to believe this except you (including the referee of the paper ….).
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Because of untestability, God remains "all of the above" since
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Because of untestability, God remains "all of the above" since
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Of course, in its utter untestability, it's not exactly science.
Fred Reed on Science and Humility Steve Sailer 2005
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Of course, in its utter untestability, it's not exactly science.
Archive 2005-07-24 Steve Sailer 2005
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This will require a redefinition of science to avoid this “straw man” as many design advocates refer to this untestability-unfalsifiability-unpublishability of original research issue.
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The trouble with this hypothesis is that it declares its own untestability at the outset.
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