单词	disconfirm
释义	disconfirm /dɪskənˈfəːm / verb [with object] Show that (a belief or hypothesis) is not or may not be true: Cohen may have found evidence disconfirming the hypothesis... If reality was going to be in such poor form as to disconfirm their belief, they would find a way to make belief and reality match. Research validates or disconfirms theory, thereby leading to its refinement and modification. It seems that people usually feel no need to question their developing beliefs, and that evidence which might disconfirm them is ignored. Derivatives disconfirmable adjective disconfirmation /ˌdɪskɒnfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/ noun ... But such a belief is hard to maintain and is hence vulnerable to disconfirmation in various ways. They misinterpreted data and gave extraordinary significance to confirmations, while ignoring or not seeking disconfirmations. Themes are identified and similarities and contradictions emerge in the analysis, with confirmation or disconfirmation of findings supported in subsequent interviews. disconfirmatory adjective ... This lack of integration of situational cues into their self-conceptions may account for the maintenance of optimistic self-views in the face of disconfirmatory feedback, such as rejection by peers. They gave full attention to confirmatory data, but were unaware of or oblivious to disconfirmatory data. We present a new method for extracting, representing and propagating qualitative correlations among hypotheses as confirmatory or disconfirmatory evidence of uncertain reasoning.
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