verifiability
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English
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[edit]verifiability (usually uncountable, plural verifiabilities)
- The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability.
- 1887, J. M. Rigg, “The Place of Hypothesis in Experimental Science”, in Mind, volume 12, number 48, page 559:
- Mill distinguished between hypotheses which rest on mere analogy and such as are capable of "being ultimately brought to the test of actual induction," claiming for the latter a verifiability which he denied to the former.
- 1973 , James C. McKeown, "Comparative Application of Market and Cost Based Accounting Models," Journal of Accounting Research, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 99,
- The verifiabilities of the other measurement systems were very similar.
- 2004, Mark Sanders, “Truths and Contestation: Literature in Law”, in Law and Literature, volume 16, number 3, page 481:
- The issues of veracity and verifiability raised by testimony in trials emerge with a vengeance in the context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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[edit]property of being capable of being verified
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