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confirmability

noun

Etymology

From confirm + -ability.

  1. derived from confirmo
  2. derived from confermer
  3. inherited from confirmen
  4. suffixed as confirmability — “confirm + ability”

Definitions

  1. The state or property of being capable of being confirmed.

    • Nothing seems more natural than to approach confirmability via confirmation.
    • So the confirmability as well as the refutability of our theories (conditional if not categorical) are necessary conditions for the possibility of science.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for confirmability. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA