ADJECTIVE
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not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition
the HIV test was negative - establishing as invalid or untrue
How To Use disconfirming In A Sentence
- It is unlikely that one isolated believer could withstand the kind of disconfirming evidence we have specified. Blogbot - forsiden
- Big ideas create tunnel vision which encourages the believer to ignore disconfirming data. Margaret Heffernan: The Wilful Blindness of Rupert Murdoch
- But here I think the distinction starts to break down: The ideologues might be simply more attentive and conscious of their beliefs, or be embedded within a more structured network of fellow ideologues who can provide them with new ways of accommodating and explaining disconfirming evidence. Matthew Yglesias » Neighborhood Diversity
- But sometimes the structure of an interaction will not provide disconfirming evidence, or more precisely it will provide evidence that could be interpreted either way. Matthew Yglesias » Neighborhood Diversity
- This finding, rather than disconfirming the scarcity and enhancement hypotheses, may instead suggest that both scarcity and enhancement processes occur and can balance each other.
- Without independence, it's unlikely you're going to get skepticism or a healthy look for disconfirming evidence. One Cure for Accounting Shenanigans
- I didn't use the word "falsify", I used the word "disconfirming" … they are not necessarily the same thing. Congratulations are in Order
- Police malfeasance adventitiously preserved her from a disconfirming &, I suspect, unwelcome conclusion. A Review of Against Our Will (first half)
- Here is Mr. Shermer's final diagnostic of a wrong conspiracy theory: "The conspiracy theorist defends the conspiracy theory tenaciously to the point of refusing to consider alternative explanations for the events in question, rejecting all disconfirming evidence for his theory and blatantly seeking only confirmatory evidence to support what he has already determined to be the truth. Maybe We're All Conspiracy Theorists
- The other point I guess I wanted to make was that these interactions have to be disconfirming. Matthew Yglesias » Neighborhood Diversity
