Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Capability of being refuted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being refutable.
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- noun The
ability to berefuted ;disprovability .
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Examples
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Scientific theories must also pass the crucial hurdles of testability, verifiability, refutability, falsifiability, and repeatability.
Capitalistic Musings Samuel Vaknin
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Behe’s claim of the experimental refutability of ID, made under oath, is specious.
An Experimental Test of ID? Really? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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