Testability

Testability, a property applying to an empirical hypothesis, involves two components: Testability, a property applying to an empirical hypothesis, involves two components: In short, a hypothesis is testable if there is some real hope of deciding whether it is true or false of real experience. Upon this property of its constituent hypotheses rests the ability to decide whether a theory can be supported or falsified by the data of actual experience. If hypotheses are tested, initial results may also be labeled inconclusive.