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Definition of Disprovable
1. a. Capable of being disproved or refuted.
Definition of Disprovable
1. Adjective. Capable of being disproved. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disprovable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disprovable
Literary usage of Disprovable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transcendence of the Western Mind: Physics, Metaphysics, and Life on Earth by Samuel C. Avery (2003)
"To be provable or disprovable, a theory has to be objective — that is, you and
I and everyone else has to see more or less the same thing and agree that it ..."
2. Proceedings by Classical Association (Great Britain) (1908)
"When he spoke of the ascription of both Iliad and Odyssey to a single poet, he
did not think that himself, but he did not think it was disprovable. ..."
3. Proceedings by Classical Association (Great Britain) (1908)
"When he spoke of the ascription of both Iliad and Odyssey to a single poet, he
did not think that himself, but he did not think it was disprovable ..."
4. Journal of Theological Studies (1901)
"... therefore simply as phenomena akin to hypnotism, thought-transference and
mesmerism, provable or disprovable according to the quality of the evidence. ..."
5. Science and Hebrew Tradition by Thomas Henry Huxley (1897)
"... by some effort of ingenuity, the pentateuchal story can be shown to be not
disprovable by scientific knowledge, but whether it is supported thereby. ..."
6. English Literature During the Lifetime of Shakespeare by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1910)
"... trivialities quoted above, some of them as old as Pliny's Natural History and
disprovable by far less cumbrous methods than those of inductive logic. ..."
7. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"... pentateuchal story can be shown to be not disprovable by scientific knowledge,
but whether it is supported thereby. There is nothing, then, ..."
8. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"nature of the charge : which is neither provable nor disprovable, and which is
characterised, both by Xenophon and in the Platonic Apology, ..."
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