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disconfirm
Disconfirm (verb) means to show that a claim, belief or theory is not true.
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To show that a claim, belief or theory is not true.
"The empirical data obtained in a test—or, as we shall prefer to say, the observation sentences describing those data—may then either confirm or disconfirm the given hypothesis, or they may be neutral with respect to it."
— Carl G. Hempel, A Purely Syntactical Definition of Confirmation (1943)
"As a result, if facts disconfirm the officially sanctioned theoretical vision, they are subordinated."
— Paul Romer, The Trouble with Macroeconomics (2016)
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What is the meaning of disconfirm?
"disconfirm" (verb) means to show that a claim, belief or theory is not true.
What is the opposite of disconfirm?
The opposite of "disconfirm" is confirm.
