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Proving and disproving
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disprove | American Dictionary

disprove
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈspruv/
to prove that an idea, statement, etc. is not true:
Given the thoroughness of the author’s research, the burden rests on critics to disprove the facts he presents.

Examples of disprove

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It has disproved the notion that elderly patients cannot understand a philosophical concept such as existential well-being.
Conversely, in societies with corporate descent groups, genealogical exceptions to rules of descent need not disprove the rule.
Removing these dates from their analysis does not disprove their conclusions, but it does reduce their corroborative evidence.
In the end it could neither be proved nor disproved.
Where there is a lack of systematic record keeping, it is difficult for the manager to prove or disprove the legality of their activities.
However, further studies are needed to develop, or disprove, a link between telomeres, cell replication and longevity.
Such broad conditions, it seems to me, do more to disprove the correlation than to corroborate it.
The lack of intermediate composition probably is problematic to the fractionation model, although this does not in itself disprove the hypothesis.
Note that we can find more symmetry by starting from the assumption that every constraint is symmetric on all arguments and iteratively disproving this.
Yet the fact remains that there is no evidence to disprove it either.
This is an existence statement which can only be disproved if we fail to find a single supporting case.
This possibility can neither be proved nor disproved, as to our knowledge, no data are available for goldfish.
The long-term aim is to develop a uniform method for proving (or disproving) cut elimination for a wide class of substructural logics.
The impression was that the texts ' ' protested too much ' ' and were produced with a view to disproving the popular prejudices wielded against them.
It could be argued that the new genetics will not prove or disprove human nature to be one thing or another.
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