disconfirmable

Most importantly, analysts did not recognize that this key belief was not "disconfirmable" -- that is, it could not be shown to be false until the shah had already been deposed.

CIA's Mideast Surprise Recalls History Of Intelligence Failures Marcus Baram 2011

Most importantly, analysts did not recognize that this key belief was not "disconfirmable" -- that is, it could not be shown to be false until the shah had already been deposed.

CIA's Mideast Surprise Recalls History Of Intelligence Failures Marcus Baram 2011

In contrast with those logical positivists who thought that statements of value merely express attitudes, pro or con, to objects, persons, or situations, but are neither true nor false, Lewis (1946, 396-98) thought that statements of value were as true or false as other empirical statements, and every bit as empirically verifiable or falsifiable, confirmable or disconfirmable.

Clarence Irving Lewis Hunter, Bruce 2007

These are non-terminating judgements of value and are empirically confirmable or disconfirmable by induction just like any other objective empirical judgement.

Clarence Irving Lewis Hunter, Bruce 2007

Third, there are non-terminating or objective judgments that are confirmable and disconfirmable by experience, thanks to their sense meaning, but are not decisively verifiable or falsifiable.

Clarence Irving Lewis Hunter, Bruce 2007

However, as expressing real connections, they are nonetheless confirmable and disconfirmable by experience, as are the objective judgements whose sense meaning they constitute.

Clarence Irving Lewis Hunter, Bruce 2007

The idea of a reality neither confirmable nor disconfirmable in principle by experience was thus for Lewis without meaning.

Clarence Irving Lewis Hunter, Bruce 2007

This originally took on the form of attempting to show that all meaningful scientific discourse could be analyzed in terms of logical combinations beginning with "protocol sentences", or sentences directly confirmable or disconfirmable by experience.

Russell's Logical Atomism Klement, Kevin 2005

Many a scientific hypothesis originated as a testable, that is, confirmable or disconfirmable knowledge-claim; but when difficulties arose, often by

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT FEIGL 1968

On it’s surface AGW looks like a confirmable/disconfirmable hypothesis/theory.

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