Disconfirm vs Confirm - What's the difference?
disconfirm | confirm | Antonyms |
To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid.
*1943 , , "A Purely Syntactical Definition of Confirmation," The Journal of Symbolic Logic , vol. 8, no. 4, p. 122,
*: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.
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
(Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 35:
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
Confirm is a antonym of disconfirm.
As verbs the difference between disconfirm and confirm
is that disconfirm is to establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid while confirm is to strengthen; to make firm or resolute.disconfirm
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* confirmReferences
* * *Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)confirm
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* confirme (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.