substantiate
He was surprised at the lack of factual substantiation in the report.
We have substantiation of every single thing that is said in every ad.
There is no scientific substantiation for the assertion that HIV is mutating.

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Proving and disproving
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demonstrable
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vindication
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Examples of substantiation

substantiation
However, the presentation and substantiation of one's own position and the attack of the opponent's view are not independent from one another.
This is not only an unorthodox approach that requires more substantiation than is given in the book, it also makes a number of incorrect predictions.
I also consider behavioral substantiation (associational activity among civil servants, and statistical analyses of staff turnover). 32.
If the argument is to be made that forest-far ms are more productive or sustainable than disturbed croplands, then proper and rigorous substantiation is needed.
Most of these claims are mentioned in passing, without substantiation.
Further heuristic substantiation of the approach may be found in the fact that the prevailing equations are the classical ones of transonic flow.
Further substantiation, nevertheless, requires complimentary investigation in the laboratory, where phenotypic and other variables can be tightly controlled.
However, the evidence is weak and needs further substantiation.
While this hope clearly needs substantiation, it is fatuous to declare decision theory false because people's preferences are not typically complete.
And with its collapse one could no o longer look to mathematics for substantiation of traditional intuitionist epistemology.
All the essays are short, which makes substantiation of ambitious theses difficult.
This suggestion is, however, based on the analysis of a single token (apter) and therefore requires further i substantiation.
I believe that it contributes positively to the goal of increasing the precision of our hypotheses and their empirical substantiation.
This observation, based as it was on somewhat limited evidence, clearly needed substantiation by a more exact and verifiable hypothesis.
Any work without substantiation cannot be considered to be a work of history at all.
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