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confirmability en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English confirm Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English confirmability From confirm + -ability.

Meanings

1. The state or property of being capable of being confirmed.
   • Nothing seems more natural than to approach confirmability via confirmation. 1968, G. Schlesinger, “Confirmability and Determinism,”, in The Philosophical Quarterly, volume 18, number 70, page 30:
   • So the confirmability as well as the refutability of our theories (conditional if not categorical) are necessary conditions for the possibility of science. 2003, Frederik A. Muller, “Refutability Revamped: How Quantum Mechanics Saves the Phenomena,”, in Erkenntnis, volume 58, number 2, page 190:

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verifiability