disconfirm
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disconfirm
verb disconfirms · disconfirming · disconfirmed
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To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid.
The empirical data obtained in a test—or, as we shall prefer to say, the observation sentences describing those data—may then either confirm or disconfirm the given hypothesis, or they may be neutral with respect to it.
Similar: infirm
Opposite: confirm
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Opposite: confirm
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verb to establish the falsity of a claim or belief
| Português | desconfirmar |
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Talk about this word "disconfirm." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/disconfirm. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. disconfirm. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/disconfirm "disconfirm." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/disconfirm.Cite this
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title = {disconfirm},
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