confirmability
Noun
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Noun
confirmability (plural confirmabilities)
- The state or property of being capable of being confirmed.
- 1968, G. Schlesinger, "Confirmability and Determinism," The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 70, p. 30,
- Nothing seems more natural than to approach confirmability via confirmation.
- 2003, Frederik A. Muller, "Refutability Revamped: How Quantum Mechanics Saves the Phenomena," Erkenntnis, vol. 58, no. 2, p. 190,
- So the confirmability as well as the refutability of our theories (conditional if not categorical) are necessary conditions for the possibility of science.
- 1968, G. Schlesinger, "Confirmability and Determinism," The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 70, p. 30,
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