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101certain — [adj1] confident assertive, assured, believing, calm, cocksure, convinced, positive, questionless, sanguine, satisfied, secure, selfconfident, sure, unconcerned, undisturbed, undoubtful, undoubting, unperturbed, untroubled; concept 403 Ant.… …
102confirm — [kən fʉrm′] vt. [ME confermen < OFr confermer < L confirmare < com , intens. + firmare, to strengthen < firmus, FIRM1] 1. to make firm; strengthen; establish; encourage 2. to make valid by formal approval; ratify 3. to prove the truth …
103falsifiable — adjective capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation • Syn: ↑confirmable, ↑verifiable • Similar to: ↑empirical, ↑empiric • Derivationally related forms: ↑verify ( …
104verifiable — adjective 1. capable of being verified a verifiable account of the incident • Similar to: ↑objective, ↑nonsubjective • Derivationally related forms: ↑verify 2. capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation …
105cognitivist — və̇st noun ( s) : an ethicist who holds that genuine ethical judgments are cognitive or empirically confirmable; usually : utilitarian, pragmatist …
106confirmability — ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷əˈbiləd.ē, ətē, i noun ( es) : the quality or state of being confirmable …
107confirmability theory — noun Etymology: confirmability from confirmable + ity : a modification of the verifiability principle according to which a requirement or criterion for the meaningfulness of a factual statement is its susceptibility to the possibility of being… …
108verifiability — ˌverəˌfīəˈbiləd.ē, lətē, i noun : the quality or state of being confirmable …
109testable — I. ˈtestəbəl adjective Etymology: Latin testabilis, from testari to be a witness, make a will + abilis able 1. : qualified (as by being legally capable) to bear witness or make a will 2. : disposable by will II. adjective …
110au|thor|i|tar|i|an|ism — «uh THR uh TAIR ee uh NIHZ uhm, THOR », noun. the principle of obedience to authority; body of principles underlying authoritarian belief or practice: »The authoritarianism of dictatorship is usually shattered in revolution. The sciences…have… …
