Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of refuting or disproving.
- noun Evidence that refutes or disproves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Proof to the contrary; confutation; refutation: as, to offer evidence in disproof of an allegation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
refutation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
- noun the act of determining that something is false
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mathematics is not falsifiable by empirical evidence it is falsiable by the possibility of mathematical disproof, which is not the same thing.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Russ Roberts, The Price of Everything: 2009
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Zeno's method; for _dissolvere_ should refer to Zeno's method of disproof, which is not properly called dilemma.
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914
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I wonder what you make of Columbus '"disproof" of the flat earth theory.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The letter shows it is on an irrelevant track with its first "disproof," in which it attacks a "cover letter and associated materials provided to TV stations" rather than any assertion actually made in one of the SBVT ads.
Thomas Lipscomb: Why Running "On the Record" Is Harder Than You Think 2008
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Conway conjectured that no initially finite population could grow in number without limit and offered fifty dollars for the first proof or disproof.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Referencing the weather in Virginia or Vancouver as disproof or proof of climate change is inappropriate scientifically.
Think Progress » After warmest January in history, Vancouver airlifts in snow for Winter Olympics. 2010
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That is true even if such dialogue results in greater knowledge of each other's traditions and does not aim as it still does too often at proof, disproof, or proselytism.
Arnold M. Eisen: A New Holy Week Agenda Arnold M. Eisen 2011
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Instead, the important idea about the method is that any statement, to be scientific, must be open to disproof, and a way of knowing how to disprove it exists.
Absolute Certainty Is Not Scientific Daniel B. Botkin 2011
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That is true even if such dialogue results in greater knowledge of each other's traditions and does not aim as it still does too often at proof, disproof, or proselytism.
Arnold M. Eisen: A New Holy Week Agenda Arnold M. Eisen 2011
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Actually it's not Palin or any of the disproof that makes me question, it's merely the fact that most climatologist or scientist that hold global warming (GW) to be a fact, do so unquestioningly and with potentially bad data (see climate-gate).
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