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confirmability Philos.|kɒnfɜːməˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. confirmable a. + -ity.]
The quality or condition of being confirmable.
1932H. H. Price Perception vii. 185 The existence of a particular visual or tactual sense-datum is prima facie evidence..for the existence of a material thing such that this sense-datum belongs to it... This proposition may be called the Principle of Confirmability; for unless it were true, no confirmation of a perceptual act by other perceptual acts would ever be possible. 1945Mind LIV. 8 Carnap has constructed definitions of testability and confirmability which avoid reference to the concept of confirming and of disconfirming evidence. |