>Let's look at this a little differently. Did you win the lottery yesterday? I presume not. Did that mean the lottery yesterday was not winnable?

The lottery yesterday is not winnable by me because it was already won by someone else and because I already lost. That is a fact. That's a valid statement taken at face value. It's not nonsensical at all. There's no subtle word twisting here.

Do you actually go around saying the lottery was winnable after it was already won by someone else? Your example is the one that at face value seems more twisted.

You are also dealing with probabilities. Falsification by the word itself "false" deals with boolean logic. True or false. There is no probability here which you introduced with your "lottery" analogy. It's not really applicable because something can't be false if it has a probability of being true or false.

> Falsifiable doesn't mean proven false, it means able to be proven false, even if it isn't.

Again you're not addressing my point. I know what your definition IS. And I stated before, and I will state again that if we assume your definition is TRUE there is an inconsistency between the word "FALSIFIED" and "FALSIFIABILITY". This is a linguistic problem with your word choice.

But read your own statement carefully. Even your definition doesn't make sense. How can something have the ability to be proven false if it isn't false? That doesn't even make sense. What you mean is that a statement can be tested in attempt to be proved false. I'd be pedantic to hold you to that but I'm not. But I will hold on to the fact that the error you made in your language is a linguistic issue and not one with your logic. The linguistic issue is what I'm referring to here. That's the inconsistency I originally pointed out.

If something is falsified it is false. But by your definition it can be both falsifiable and not falsified and not false. I didn't say that YOUR definition made the statement nonsensical. I said it sounds nonsensical because the face-value definition makes it nonsensical. Which is equivalent to saying any average person will find it to not make sense because they defined the word traditionally while you defined the word differently.

>There's nothing nonsensical about it. Lots of things are extendable even when they're not extended, foldable when not folded, recyclable when not recycled, and falsifiable when not falsified. The colloquial definition is the same as the formal, you're the only one using it your way.

You're not getting it. It's not my way. It's you. You're extremely far away from understanding logic. We can tell from this statement here:

>Though again, this has nothing to do with it being true or false. Bigfoot married Elvis is likewise a provable claim, a claim where evidence could be presented that would prove it true if it were true.

In science and therefore reality as we know it there is no such thing as a provable claim. Nothing in reality can be proven. Falsification is the only methodology available to us. Read the first section here:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Falsifiability I'll quote it:

"Popper contrasted falsifiability to the intuitively similar concept of verifiability that was then current in logical positivism. He argues that the only way to verify a claim such as "All swans are white" would be if one could theoretically observe all swans, which is not possible."

Which means you can't prove all swans are white. It's impossible. But you can falsify it by finding one black swan.

You'll also note on the same wikiwand page it says this as the second sentence: "A theory or hypothesis is falsifiable (or refutable) if it can be logically contradicted by an empirical test."

By definition a true statement can't be contradicted by an empirical test. So even the formal definition is inconsistent with your claim.

I entirely get how the word is used in the scientific community and what you are referring to but the formal definition here is just a poor choice made by Karl Popper or whoever it was who coined it and it doesn't mesh with the rest of English. It allows for wikipedia to mistakenly have a definition that by logic cannot be applied to true statements. If we just replace some words and apply that definition you get this:

"A true statement that is falsifiable by definition can be logically contradicted in a empirical test"

It can't man, let's be real here, don't twist it.

>Lots of things are extendable even when they're not extended, foldable when not folded, recyclable when not recycled, and falsifiable when not falsified.

Ok this. This is word twisting. It's almost deliberate. Nobody made any statements like this, you twisted the analogies slightly to fit your agenda. Let's make things more accurate here:

If something is can't be folded it is foldable. If something can't be recycled it is recyclable. If something can't be falsified it is falsifiable. These sound contradictory at face value. Ask anyone.

The ORIGINAL claim was this: "All true claims are unfalsifiable by definition."

A true claim is equivalent to a claim that can't be falsified. So I essentially said, "All claims that can't be falsified are unfalsifiable by definition" and you're saying that claim is wrong. Let's be real.

We're getting pedantic here, but ultimately the logic spells out that I'm right.