But it is possible to help disconfirm some popular beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [The General Managers] Reference
Anyone know of data that would tend to confirm or disconfirm this?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » LSAC Study on Law School Gaming Resources for US News Rankings] Reference
As theories become accepted people just stop trying to disconfirm them. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #15 « Climate Audit] Reference
Its attempts to verify these allegation has enabled it to disconfirm about half of them. From Wordnik.com. [Cambodia: UN Memorandum re Executions] Reference
I was thinking of a nice experiment which might confirm or disconfirm Ritzian relativity. From Wordnik.com. [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference
You have stated that the failure of Wells 'hypothesis would not tend to disconfirm ID at all. From Wordnik.com. [ID Research, Look to the Example] Reference
Doing a cursory check of records to confirm suspicions rather than trying to disconfirm them. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Roth on Guns and Why Historians Struggle Determining “which quantitative studies are wrong and which are right.”–] Reference
A corollary is that, where H entails E, ~E would disconfirm H, by reducing its probability to zero. From Wordnik.com. [Bayesian Epistemology] Reference
Why not if observations can disconfirm that every event has a cause or disconfirm Euclidean geometry?. From Wordnik.com. [A Priori Justification and Knowledge] Reference
AND where sites are designated as Rural but found to be infected we can disconfirm the lights=0 theory. From Wordnik.com. [More on Asphalt « Climate Audit] Reference
We can thus use our intuitions about Fred's and Wilma's utterances to confirm (or disconfirm) Kaplan's theory. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
Feared activities are first modeled to show people how to cope with threats and to disconfirm their worst fears. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Efficacy - Albert Bandura] Reference
Experimental research is the business of collecting evidence that might support or disconfirm causal hypotheses. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
This Catch 22 is peculiar to parapsychology, making it difficult in principle for skeptics to disconfirm any claim. From Wordnik.com. [Parapsychology: An Exchange] Reference
At the moment, I don't really have much of a chance to confirm or disconfirm if this is an official policy at FEMA. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives] Reference
If the wrong fossils were found in the wrong strata, that would tend to disconfirm itunless, of course, those fossils were false. From Wordnik.com. [Making a Monkey out of Pat Buchanan] Reference
We have data, which we interpret as absolute, but the data is put into a framework or hypthesis to affirm or disconfirm a theory. From Wordnik.com. [Only A Theory] Reference
For instance, Millikan used positive evidence to disconfirm the theory that electrical charge is a quantity that varies continuously. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
Also, Solexa technology would possibly confirm or disconfirm John Sanford's genetic entropy or Walter ReMine's biotic message theories. From Wordnik.com. [A Bunny Would Never Do This] Reference
The problem with claims of media bias is that humans naturally look for things that confirm or disconfirm preexisting values and beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Unfairly Balanced] Reference
The problem with a Flew/Troeltsch historiography is that it fails to affirm an analogy and, at best, can only disconfirm the non-analogous. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
(or would disconfirm) H if the prior probability of. From Wordnik.com. [Bayesian Epistemology] Reference
Perhaps one of our hosts can confirm or disconfirm that. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
G If H predicts E, then, c.p. observing E doesn't disconfirm H. From Wordnik.com. [The Prosblogion] Reference
The scientific method is: postulate, confirm or disconfirm, re-postulate. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
I mean what scientific experiment will you perform to confirm or disconfirm this claim?. From Wordnik.com. [dangerous idea] Reference
Many children naturally outgrow these as new experiences allow them to disconfirm their fears. From Wordnik.com. [AltWeeklies.com Site Feed] Reference
"It's a principle of the scientific method that you can only disconfirm, never confirm, a hypothesis.". From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference
Having cites doesn't confirm or disconfirm anything, it only provides one plausible explanation for an event. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Make sure you're gathering feedback that will disconfirm your beliefs about the world, as much as confirms it. From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
According to the authors, such an assessment is "virtually unlimited since there is no way to accurately confirm or disconfirm" it. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
If the evidence leads toward design, then common sense suggests an exploration of the lead in an effort to confirm or disconfirm it. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
If you seriously take the supernatural possibility, then you can’t disconfirm it. From Wordnik.com. [Laudan, demarcation and the vacuity of Intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
One point of surface stations is to confirm/disconfirm the accuracy of metadata, and to improve it. From Wordnik.com. [A "lights=1" USHCN station « Climate Audit] Reference
I'm trying to disconfirm a report. From Wordnik.com. [I is for Innocent]
I can't confirm or disconfirm them. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
So that you could confirm or disconfirm. From Wordnik.com. [Pain in Maine, but they can measure rain « Climate Audit] Reference
We check the numbers. we confirm or disconfirm. From Wordnik.com. [Pain in Maine, but they can measure rain « Climate Audit] Reference
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