disconfirm

disconfirm
dis·confirm

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  • disconfirm — [dis΄kən fʉrm′] vt. to declare (a theory, proposition, etc.) to be invalid disconfirmation [diskän΄fər mā′shən] n …   English World dictionary

  • disconfirm — verb To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid. The empirical data obtained in a test or, as we shall prefer to say, the observation sentences describing those data may then …   Wiktionary

  • disconfirm — transitive verb Date: 1936 to deny or refute the validity of • disconfirmation noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • disconfirm — disconfirmation /dis kon feuhr may sheuhn, dis kon /, n. /dis keuhn ferrm /, v.t. to prove to be invalid. [1935 40; DIS + CONFIRM] * * * …   Universalium

  • disconfirm — verb show that (a belief or hypothesis) is not or may not be true. Derivatives disconfirmation ˌdɪskɒnfə meɪʃ(ə)n noun disconfirmatory adjective …   English new terms dictionary

  • disconfirm — dis•con•firm [[t]ˌdɪs kənˈfɜrm[/t]] v. t. cvb to prove to be invalid • Etymology: 1935–40 …   From formal English to slang

  • disconfirm — v.tr. formal disprove or tend to disprove (a hypothesis etc.). Derivatives: disconfirmation n …   Useful english dictionary

  • Status dynamic psychotherapy — [1] (“SDT”) is an approach to psychotherapy that was created by Peter G. Ossorio at the University of Colorado in the late 1960s as part of a larger system known as Descriptive Psychology, and that has subsequently been developed by other… …   Wikipedia

  • disconfirmation — noun see disconfirm …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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