English Dictionary

disconfirm

verb

(transitive) To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid.

Scientists conducted an experiment to disconfirm the hypothesis.

意味（1）

(transitive) 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 either confirm or disconfirm the given hypothesis, or they may be neutral with respect to it.