| 释义 |
disconfirm, v.|dɪskənˈfɜːm|
[dis- 6.]
trans. (To tend) to show the falsity or invalidity of (a hypothesis, etc.); to count against. (Opp. confirm v.) Hence disconˈfirming ppl. a.
1936R. Carnap in Philos. Sci. III. 425 We may, if we wish, call a sentence disconfirmed in a certain degree if its negation is confirmed in that degree. 1943Jrnl. Symbolic Logic VIII. 122 Certain observation sentences confirm or disconfirm a hypothesis... The concepts of confirmation, disconfirmation, and neutrality..have just been loosely characterized. 1945Mind LIV. 2 A statement is called testable in principle, if it is possible to describe the kind of data which would confirm or disconfirm it. Ibid., Judgments as to the confirming or disconfirming character of experiential data obtained in the test of a hypothesis are often made. 1949A. Pap Elem. Anal. Philos. xiii. 336 A statement is meaningful if and only if one can describe evidence which would confirm it and evidence which would disconfirm it. 1968P. M. Postal Aspects Phonol. Theory viii. 161 All such assertions are, however, easily disconfirmed. |