refutability.

The capacity of a claim or argument to be disproved by relevant reasoning or evidence.

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Words that belong together

• refutability of a claim
• logical refutability

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The claim’s refutability depended on conditions that could count against it.

Logical refutability did not mean the argument had already been refuted.

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.