confirmability.

The capacity of a claim or finding to receive confirmation from relevant evidence or checking.

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Words that belong together

• confirmability of a finding
• empirical confirmability

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The finding’s confirmability depended on retaining the original observations.

Empirical confirmability did not guarantee that the claim would be confirmed.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: explicit explanation, scope and categorization, proof and interpretation, philosophical foundations. Disciplines: academic writing, formal reasoning, philosophy. Commonness: uncommon.