confutable

English

Etymology

From confute +‎ -able.

Adjective

confutable (not comparable)

1. (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^[1], 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^[2], 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.

Antonyms

• provable
• verifiable
• inconfutable

Derived terms

• confutability
• unconfutable

 

Translations

that can be confuted