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confutable

confutable adjective: that can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.

Adjective

confutable (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
    • That Caucasus enjoys the Sunbeams three parts of the Nights Vigils; that Danubius ariseth from the Pyrenæan Hills: That the Earth is higher towards the North: are opinions truly charged on Aristotle by the Restorer of Epicurus; and all easily confutable falsities.1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter 20, in John Owen, editor, Scepsis Scientifica, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., published 1885, page 152
    • Nor can we accept the suggestion that a sentence should be allowed to be factually significant if, and only if, it expresses something which is definitely confutable by experience.1936, A. J. Ayer, chapter 1, in Language, Truth, and Logic, London: Victor Gollancz, published 1947, page 38

Antonyms of confutable

Origin of confutable

From confute + -able.

Words formed from confutable

Questions about confutable

What does confutable mean?
Confutable means that can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
What part of speech is confutable?
Confutable is an adjective.

Words near confutable in the dictionary

  1. confusticated
  2. confusticates
  3. confusticating
  4. confustication
  5. confutability
  6. confutable
  7. confutation
  8. confutational
  9. confutations
  10. confutative
  11. confutator

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