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  • noun Plural form of disproof.

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Examples

  • The centrality of “disproofs” also highlights the crucial importance of those final two steps in the scientific process: publication and peer review.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • Can you show me these continuous, repeated disproofs?

    So I hear. 2009

  • The centrality of “disproofs” also highlights the crucial importance of those final two steps in the scientific process: publication and peer review.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • When they affirmed that they knew the working class, he told them fundamental truths about the working class that they did not know, and challenged them for disproofs.

    Chapter 1: My Eagle 2010

  • The centrality of “disproofs” also highlights the crucial importance of those final two steps in the scientific process: publication and peer review.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • Proprietary feelings are of course offended when a scientific hypothesis is disproved, but such disproofs are recognized as central to the scientific enterprise.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • Proprietary feelings are of course offended when a scientific hypothesis is disproved, but such disproofs are recognized as central to the scientific enterprise.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • Proprietary feelings are of course offended when a scientific hypothesis is disproved, but such disproofs are recognized as central to the scientific enterprise.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • For the record, the very first day of class an allusion to disproofs of Ritzian relativity was made (de Sitter's work), and Ritzian ideas were presented as a refuted theory in class.

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

  • The sort of thing that we are seeing more of out of the Discovery Institute is more along the lines of standard creationism, which is to say, naysaying based on the outright misrepresentation of scientific results as “disproofs” of evolution.

    Casey Luskin embarrasses himself again - The Panda's Thumb 2010

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