verifiability
verifiability noun: the state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability.
Noun
verifiability (usually uncountable, plural verifiabilities)
- The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability.
- Mill distinguished between hypotheses which rest on mere analogy and such as are capable of "being ultimately brought to the test of actual induction," claiming for the latter a verifiability which he denied to the former.1887, J. M. Rigg, “The Place of Hypothesis in Experimental Science”, in Mind, volume 12, number 48, page 559
- 1973 , James C. McKeown, "Comparative Application of Market and Cost Based Accounting Models," Journal of Accounting Research, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 99,
The verifiabilities of the other measurement systems were very similar.
Forms of verifiability
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Origin of verifiability
From verify + -ability.
Words formed from verifiability
Questions about verifiability
- What does verifiability mean?
- Verifiability means the state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability.
- What part of speech is verifiability?
- Verifiability is a noun.
- What is the plural of verifiability?
- The plural of verifiability is verifiabilities.
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