NOUN
  1. the act of determining that something is false
  2. any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
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How To Use disproof In A Sentence

  • The simplest definition is that relevant observations are those that could disprove the hypothesis, for disproof is often possible even though absolute proof is not.
  • That is true even if such dialogue results in greater knowledge of each other's traditions and does not aim as it still does too often at proof, disproof, or proselytism. Arnold M. Eisen: A New Holy Week Agenda
  • The endlessly announced death, disproof and fraudulence of psychoanalysis is not merely the sport of bigots.
  • These doctrines are not subject to empirical proof or disproof, since they are, in the last analysis, metaphysical, or at least axiological.
  • `Which must be the ultimate disproof of all racial theories, Leo. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • Because I am, by my existence, disproof of the necessity of the state. THE DISPOSSESSED
  • The more such hypotheses resist disproof and the more evidence supporting these hypotheses are found, the better these hypotheses will do.
  • Instead, the important idea about the method is that any statement, to be scientific, must be open to disproof, and a way of knowing how to disprove it exists. Absolute Certainty Is Not Scientific
  • Conway conjectured that no initially finite population could grow in number without limit and offered fifty dollars for the first proof or disproof. SuperCooperators
  • It is not a direct proof that the mind is something more than a machine, but a schema of disproof for any particular version of mechanism that may be put forward.
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