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untestable
adjective
uk /ʌnˈtest.ə.bəl/ us /ʌnˈtest.ə.bəl/
An untestable theory cannot be proved by testing:
Astrology remains an untestable belief system.
The theory has already drawn criticism from other scientists, who claim that it is untestable.
not able to be tested:
Researchers can now use partially degraded DNA recovered from previously untestable sources.
Some of the children were deemed to be "untestable".
Vagueness makes a hypothesis untestable, and therefore unscientific.
These speculations often deal with essentially untestable propositions.
The behaviourists criticized the role of untestable assumptions.
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