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English
Etymology
From confute + -able.
Adjective
confutable (not comparable)
- (archaic or formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter 20, in John Owen, editor, Scepsis Scientifica, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., published 1885, page 152:That Caucasus enjoys the Sunbeams three parts of the Nights Vigils; that Danubius ariseth from the Pyrenæan Hills: That the Earth is higher towards the North: are opinions truly charged on Aristotle by the Restorer of Epicurus; and all easily confutable falsities.
1936, A. J. Ayer, chapter 1, in Language, Truth, and Logic, London: Victor Gollancz, published 1947, page 38:Nor can we accept the suggestion that a sentence should be allowed to be factually significant if, and only if, it expresses something which is definitely confutable by experience.
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