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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

"to commit fraud"? Who commits fraud?

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Falsifiability
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    • Falsifiability or refutability is the property of a statement, hypothesis, or theory whereby it could be shown to be false if some conceivable observation were true. In this sense, falsify is synonymous with nullify, meaning not "to commit fraud" but "show to be false".
  

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It appears to make no sense. I see this is from Wikipedia. Maybe someone inserted nonsense into the text and no one noticed.
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No-one is committing fraud here. The author is simply pointing out that falsify can mean to alter documents, evidence, etc. in order to deceive, but here falsify does not mean that; here it means to prove a statement, hypothesis or theory to be false.
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Blue JayNo-one is committing fraud here. The author is simply pointing out that falsify can mean to alter documents, evidence, etc. in order to deceive, but here falsify does not mean that; here it means to prove a statement, hypothesis or theory to be false.
Sorry, I misread it. Somehow I thought it was saying that "nullify" could mean "to commit fraud".
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Yes, sir. I forgot that.The question is:"to commit fraud"? Who commits fraud?(In that context)
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