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disconfirmatory

disconfirmatory adjective: serving to disconfirm something.

Adjective

disconfirmatory (not comparable)

  1. Serving to disconfirm something.
    • Logical thought requires the ability to test causal hypotheses in a systematic way, recognising which causal possibilities must be ruled out as well as which can be maintained in the light of the available causal evidence. This requires an appreciation of disconfirmatory as well as confirmatory...1998, Usha Goswami, Cognition in Children, Psychology Press, page 118

Origin of disconfirmatory

From dis- + confirmatory.

Questions about disconfirmatory

What does disconfirmatory mean?
Disconfirmatory means serving to disconfirm something.
What part of speech is disconfirmatory?
Disconfirmatory is an adjective.

Words near disconfirmatory in the dictionary

  1. disconfirmability
  2. disconfirmable
  3. disconfirmation
  4. disconfirmations
  5. disconfirmative
  6. disconfirmatory
  7. disconfirmed
  8. disconfirmed expectancies
  9. disconfirmed expectancy
  10. disconfirming
  11. disconfirms

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