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Disconfirm vs Disprove - What's the difference?

disconfirm | disprove |

As verbs the difference between disconfirm and disprove

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 disprove is to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

disconfirm

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.

    • Antonyms

    * confirm

    Related terms

    * disconfirmation

    References

    * * *Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)

    disprove

    English

    Verb

  • To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

    • Usage notes

    * The past participle disproven'' is often proscribed in favor of ''disproved'', unlike ''proven , which is not proscribed.

    Antonyms

    * prove

    Anagrams

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