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verifiability en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree English verify 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 verifiability From verify + -ability.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability.
   • The issues of veracity and verifiability raised by testimony in trials emerge with a vengeance in the context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 2004, Mark Sanders, “Truths and Contestation: Literature in Law”, in Law and Literature, volume 16, number 3, page 481:
   • 1973 , James C. McKeown, "Comparative Application of Market and Cost Based Accounting Models," Journal of Accounting Research, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 99, The verifiabilities of the other measurement systems were very similar.
   • Mill distinguished between hypotheses which rest on mere analogy and such as are capable of "being ultimately brought to the test of actual induction," claiming for the latter a verifiability which he denied to the former. 1887, J. M. Rigg, “The Place of Hypothesis in Experimental Science”, in Mind, volume 12, number 48, page 559:

Forms

Deriveds

unverifiability · verifiability principle · nonverifiability · criterion of verifiability · verifiability criterion · principle of verifiability

Translations (4)

nl verifieerbaarheid (property of being capable of being verified) · es verificabilidad (property of being capable of being verified) · ro verificabilitate (property of being capable of being verified) · de Überprüfbarkeit (property of being capable of being verified)