| 释义 |
refutaˈbility rare.
[f. next + -ity.]
Capability of being refuted.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 141 The Heretick (guilty and consciencious to himselfe of Refutability) taketh place first. 1957C. A. Mace Brit. Philos. in Mid-Century 160 One can sum up all this by saying that falsifiability, or refutability, is a criterion of the scientific status of a theory. |