What's the difference between confutation and disproof?

Confutation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of confuting; refutation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The apparent differences between the glutamate-induced current and nerve-evoked synaptic response revealed by TI-233 can be explained by open-channel block of the glutamate-activated ion-channel, and do not confute the hypothesis that glutamate is the natural transmitter substance at this junction.
  • (2) The results also confute interresponse-time theories of schedule performance, which require interval and ratio contingencies to produce different response rates.
  • (3) Arguably, though, Stone and Kuznick's contention is less readily confuted.
  • (4) These results confute the suitability of this agent for the treatment of benign skin disorders.
  • (5) The Author, following a critical approach focussed on society's response to deviance and on the means of social control which society applies to defend itself from crime and criminals, confutes the thesis according to which the demise of public execution is generally considered as a step in the evolution of the humanitarian ideal of total abolition of the death penalty.
  • (6) The difference does not confute the hypothesis that glutamate is the natural transmitter substance at the crayfish NMJ, notwithstanding the fact that the action of the transmitter candidate on the postsynaptic membrane must be identical in every respect with that of the transmitter.
  • (7) administration of Diazepam is confuted and the risks of such a methodology in subjects with severe cerebral damage or in the third age, are pointed out.
  • (8) This enables us to confute the claim that psychiatric syndromes are not clinically specific.

Disproof


Definition:

  • (n.) A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clearly, proof (or disproof) that GAP is downstream of ras is the next step toward clarification of this aspect of ras action; identification of biochemical activities associated with GAP (or the true ras effector) will, we hope, follow soon.
  • (2) An attention is paid to the fact that the diagnosis of glandular hyperplasia should be established with due account of patient's age, while the absence of signs of endometrial glandular hyperplasia in curettage specimens, evidenced hystologically, should not be considered as a disproof of the cytological conclusion.
  • (3) Disproof of cognitive schemas for the perception of the opposite sex (transference reactions) is hypothesized to be a common therapeutic mechanism in the dissimilar models of marital therapy.
  • (4) At present there is neither proof nor disproof of MAO being a "genetic marker" for vulnerability to the schizophrenic disorder.
  • (5) This review begins with a summary of the disproof of the membrane-pump theory and the alternative theory of the living cell, the association-induction (AI) hypothesis.
  • (6) The data are interpreted as an support for the "matching" hypothesis and a disproof of the notion of "conditioned switching".
  • (7) Writing in today's FT, Pollin and Ash are careful to say this disproof doesn't mean governments can borrow "profligately", but "judicious deficit spending remains the single most effective tool we have to fight against mass unemployment caused by severe recessions".
  • (8) This is disproof by counter-example: the experimental evidence claimed to support the polar coordinate model does not necessarily do so.
  • (9) 5(a), and either (2) or (2') are essential to the theory: 5(b) and 5(c) are not absolutely essential, and parts of the theory could survive the disproof of either.
  • (10) This result, obtained at neuromuscular junctions and the squid giant synapse, has been offered as a disproof of the calcium hypothesis of transmitter release or the residual calcium hypothesis of synaptic facilitation.
  • (11) A method is proposed for experiment fulfillment and data analysis ("six classes" method) provided for proof or disproof of the reality of diverse influence of external factors on biological objects.
  • (12) Nevertheless the disproof of the deficit theory of aging made a lot of people wait for practical suggestions in respect of intervention.
  • (13) Part of the difficulty in amassing "proof" or "disproof" is inherent in the intricate and complex nature of the aging process itself.

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