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- verb transitive To establish the
falsity of aclaim orbelief ; to show or totend to show that atheory orhypothesis is notvalid .
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Examples
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She asked me if this sounded like the woman Susy would bring along, and I told her I was not at liberty to confirm or disconfirm this possibility.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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She asked me if this sounded like the woman Susy would bring along, and I told her I was not at liberty to confirm or disconfirm this possibility.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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When this latest worry reached me at the end of the year, I resolved to see if I could confirm (or disconfirm) the veracity of the Great Tennis Ball Fuss.
There are worse things for dogs than chewing tennis balls 2009
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She asked me if this sounded like the woman Susy would bring along, and I told her I was not at liberty to confirm or disconfirm this possibility.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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She asked me if this sounded like the woman Susy would bring along, and I told her I was not at liberty to confirm or disconfirm this possibility.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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They are not designed to confirm a positive hypothesis—that, say, basmati rice grows faster than long grain brown—but rather to disconfirm the hypothesis that any differences between the strains are due to random chance, which is to say that there is no real difference.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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The authors were not, however, data dredging: They stated a hypothesis, that consumption of chocolate would correlate with depression, and examined the data to confirm or disconfirm their hypothesis.
Chocolate linked to depression (or vice versa) - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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If someone comes up with a rigorous objective method built on rigorous objective definitions, I will be sure to incorporate that and use it to confirm or disconfirm the hypotheses that have been built in the meantime.
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I was thinking of a nice experiment which might confirm or disconfirm Ritzian relativity.
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If the wrong fossils were found in the wrong strata, that would tend to disconfirm itunless, of course, those fossils were false.
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